businessman

Definition

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

Etymology

From business + -man. Displaced earlier merchant, ultimately from Latin mercāns (“merchant, buyer”).

Example Sentences

• "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"
• "BERTIE Ahern's explanation that he received an envelope stuffed with £8,000 in cash following a whip-around by a group of Manchester-based businessmen was branded untrue by the Mahon Tribunal."
• "Needless to say the obituaries for Hefner, even if they acknowledge the seaminess, have been full of encomia for his great deeds: Hef the vanquisher of puritanism, Hef the political progressive, Hef the great businessman and all the rest."

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