businessman

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

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪznəsmən/, /ˈbɪznɪsmən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪznəsmæn/, /ˈbɪznəsmən/

businessman (plural businessmen)

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

   Synonym: (gender-neutral) businessperson

   • 2005, “Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Jay-Z:

     I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man

   • 2012 March 23, Colm Kelpie, “Claim of 'whip-around' by friends rubbished”, in Irish Independent:

     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.

   • 2017 September 30, Ross Douthat, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

• → French: businessman
• → Irish: fear gnó (calque)
• → Macedonian: би́знисмен (bíznismen)
• → Polish: biznesmen
• → Romanian: businessman
• → Russian: бизнесме́н (biznɛsmén)
  • → Armenian: բիզնեսմեն (biznesmen)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бѝзнисмен

  Latin script: bìznismen

• → Slovak: biznismen

• entrepreneur

Borrowed from English businessman.

• IPA^(key): /biz.nɛs.mɛ̃/

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businessman m (plural businessmen or businessmans, feminine businesswoman)

1. businessman

• “businessman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English businessman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiz.nɛs.mɛn/, (colloquial) /bizˈnɛs.mɛn/

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• Rhymes: -iznɛsmɛn, -ɛsmɛn
• Syllabification: busi‧ness‧man

businessman m pers (female equivalent businesswoman)

1. (business) alternative spelling of biznesmen

• businessman in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• businessman in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English businessman.

businessman m (plural businessmeni)

1. businessman