A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

Usage examples of businessman.

Large numbers of Iraqi front companies and businessmen operate out of Amman, and naturally, with them come large numbers of Mukhabbarat personnel.

With a base of western farmers and northern businessmen, the Republicans drew antislavery forces from the other splinter parties, growing rapidly in size and influence.

He quit after the disclosure of his friendship with Asil Nadir, a businessman who fled to Turkish-occupied north Cyprus charged with serious fraud offences connected with his Polly Peck group.

I, yachtsman, charterer, small-time businessman, an escapee if you like into the lotus life of the Mediterranean, to know, or even to understand, the machinations of those far removed from the little Balearic island of Menorca?

George Hees would have to be recognized as the driving spirit in the barefisted process of persuading reluctant Canadian businessman to get out and sell their products in strange and difficult markets.

The proceeds of these sales should of course find their way into the bank accounts of the Tijuana businessmen who brokered the product, and naturally the banker who oversees these deals should be a very prudent man.

It is not much, some card tricks to perform at a conference of Brummagem businessmen in a London hotel, and the fee is only half a guinea, but this is a red-letter day!

The New York police, meanwhile, had reported to Morgenthau that an eyewitness had been unearthed, a respectable businessman, who would attest that he saw Gotti standing on the sidewalk near Sparks Steak House as Castellano was being gunned down.

The street was filled cheek-by-jowl with pawnbrokers, wine merchants, import-export dealers, and chophouses, and all of them catering to seamen, tradesmen, and businessmen.

General Lucius Clay, the deputy military governor for Germany, appointed businessmen who opposed denazification to positions of control over the denazification proceeds.

The sort of investment that he admired so many other German businessmen for making now that the Deutschmark was so highly valued.

James was a state senator now, and politicians and businessmen and their wives, and the governor of the state, and even some politicians from Washington, the capital, all came to see the wonder that was The Forks of Cypress.

The last stall, the twelfth, was occupied by Joel Tuck, he of the cabbage ears, he of the steam-shovel mouth and bile-yellow teeth, he of the Frankensteinian brow, he of the third eye, giant and freak and businessman and philosopher.

Angels, as they become businessmen, try desperately to shed the caveman image that outlaw motorcycle gangs thrive on.

He wore a gold watch that was a cheap knockoff of a gawdy Rolex, and he looked the part of a fat, self-indulgent businessman taking it easy while his minions worked their asses off to give him the good life.