"businessman" | Definition and Related Words

businessman

Noun

A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) (synset 109901459)
is a type of: bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
subtypes:
- 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)
- baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon - a very wealthy or powerful businessman
- 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
- owner, proprietor - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
- small businessman - a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people
- suit - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
- syndicator - a businessman who forms a syndicate
- transactor - someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations
specific instances:
- cornell, ezra 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)
- hill, j. j. hill, james jerome 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 Germany) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)
same as: man of affairs

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