businessman

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Smith going to Washington - he's a multi-billionaire businessman with deep political and media connections and interests.

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A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

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noun

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for businessman.

noun

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

Example sentences

Smith going to Washington - he's a multi-billionaire businessman with deep political and media connections and interests.

This is fine if what you want is to run a business and be a businessman.

He's destroyed any reputation he had as an investor / businessman for me.

Any businessman who doesn't believe in advancing society with the power and responsibility that comes with business ownership deserves no respect nor success.

I'll be the first engineer at someone else's startup, but I don't want to be a businessman first, engineer second.

It's the kind of out-of-touch fantasy perspective you'd expect to hear from a multi-millionaire businessman, but not from someone who so famously identifies with hacker culture.

I've matured a bit in my relationship with debt as a businessman.

Thomas Edison is the millenials version of Stalin for no other reason than him being a successful businessman while the cult-favorite failed at his own, just as evil/greedy/stupid/cheap business.

Twenty years ago a successful businessman turned minister of finance named Stefanos Manos pointed out that it would be cheaper to put all Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs: it’s still true.

There’s also the potential to have private accounts that maybe a businessman would only share with his assistant to let them know what’s being purchased and explain things a bit better in the comments.

This is the auto mechanic who could have been an engineer or the grocery store clerk who could have been an electrician or a businessman or the plumber who could have been a writer, etc.

Steve Jobs, Richard Branson) Musk styles himself a builder, an engineer first and a businessman second, and so HN users who are primarily software engineers who maybe dream of starting a business see themselves in him.

Quote examples

Next to Asian businessman, the only other player they would rather have at their tables are "Television Pros."

But that Alexis appears to have "matured" into a vanilla businessman, and that's fine.

My father once cryptically told me "every American businessman overseas is a spy." At first I didn't know what he was talking about—now I get it.

Anyway, in most cases the person who said that is a complete hypocrite, like a politician/businessman who wants to ban encryption to be able to spy on their competitors, not to "protect children".