BUSINESSWOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does businesswoman mean? 

• BUSINESSWOMAN (noun)
  The noun BUSINESSWOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a female businessperson

  Familiarity information: BUSINESSWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESSWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female businessperson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("businesswoman" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "businesswoman"):

brothel keeper; madam (a woman who runs a house of prostitution)