WordNet
n. the body of individuals who manage businesses [syn: businessmen]
Usage examples of "business community".
As a result of what he and Franklin achieved in the next week, the solid business community of the French coast awakened to the probability that the United States might indeed win their war of attrition and become a major commercial center.
The Beacon Council, guiding light of Dade's business community, hired two lobbyists to pry $150,000 in grant money from the state Legislature.
By kind words and frequent pats on the head, he had had the business community eating out of his hand.
Environmental issues are increasingly a discussion topic in the Thai business community and in local newspapers.
His friends in the business community were afire with optimism, and he hesitated to be a wet blanket.
Within a week the personnel changes I had recommended were made, and news spread through the business community.