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BUSINESS PEOPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does business people mean?
• BUSINESS PEOPLE (noun)
The noun BUSINESS PEOPLE has 1 sense:
1. people who transact business (especially business executives)
Familiarity information: BUSINESS PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who transact business (especially business executives)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
business people; businesspeople
Hypernyms ("business people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Domain category:
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Context examples
Your new contacts and friends may include ambassadors, diplomats, others who work in the foreign service or government, university professors, journalists and producers, bureau chiefs from publishing and TV networks, and business people who deal with ideas, communication, and negotiation.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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