businessman
//ˈbɪznəsmən//
Forms
- Plural
- businessmen
Definitions
1.A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4673
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From business + -man.
Displaced earlier merchant, ultimately from Latin mercāns (“merchant, buyer”).