businessman | | |
n. (person) | 1. businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ amalgamator | a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies. |
| ~ arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur | someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential). |
| ~ big businessman, business leader, magnate, top executive, tycoon, baron, king, mogul, power | a very wealthy or powerful businessman.; "an oil baron" |
| ~ bourgeois, businessperson | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
| ~ industrialist | someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise. |
| ~ oilman | a person who owns or operates oil wells. |
| ~ operator | someone who owns or operates a business.; "who is the operator of this franchise?" |
| ~ owner, proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business.; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" |
| ~ small businessman | a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people. |
| ~ suit | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" |
| ~ syndicator | a businessman who forms a syndicate. |
| ~ transactor | someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations. |
| ~ ezra cornell, cornell | United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874). |
| ~ e. h. harriman, edward henry harriman, harriman | United States railway tycoon (1848-1909). |
| ~ j. j. hill, james jerome hill, hill | United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916). |
| ~ collis potter huntington, huntington | United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900). |
| ~ first baron marks of broughton, marks, simon marks | English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964). |
| ~ david sarnoff, sarnoff | United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971). |
| ~ leland stanford, stanford | United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893). |
| ~ george stephenson, stephenson | English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848). |
| ~ henry villard, villard | United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900). |
| ~ john wanamaker, wanamaker | United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922). |
| ~ aaron montgomery ward, montgomery ward, ward | United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913). |
| ~ frank winfield woolworth, woolworth | United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919). |
| ~ rudolf wurlitzer, wurlitzer | United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914). |
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