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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
businessman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
self-made man/millionaire/businessman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
american
▪ Odour-free video turnoff AMERICAN businessmen have been A turning up their noses at video conferencing because they can not smell each other.
black
▪ The chief beneficiaries of affirmative action are university students and black businessmen, who are the blacks most likely to succeed anyway.
▪ In order to obtain better prices for their cotton, black businessmen sent it directly to Galveston, thus avoiding local middlemen.
▪ Pompey, a respected black businessman in Nantucket.
leading
▪ One leading businessman said this week that up to 70 percent of shares traded every day were being sold overseas.
▪ Antione Izmery, a leading businessman.
▪ The audience was made of around 100 leading businessmen, at the sharp end of the recession.
local
▪ The man behind that is local businessman Colin Smith.
▪ The holding company manages the investments of local businessman Wayne Huizenga in, among other things, car rental companies.
▪ Now a further prosecution is pending after a local businessman agreed to act as a prosecution witness.
▪ To go with his telescopes, Hale helped found Caltech, with ample support from local Pasadena businessmen.
▪ Her father was a prominent local businessman and the chairman of the Bench.
▪ If they lived here, local businessmen would benefit.
▪ In Britain the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen.
old
▪ By dawn, the 46-year-#old Agoura Hills businessman dons a wet suit, picks up a surfboard and catches waves.
prominent
▪ Her father was a prominent local businessman and the chairman of the Bench.
▪ From 1830 Lille was run by mayors who were prominent businessmen.
small
▪ He is a small businessman and he likes to deal with small bankers.
▪ Perhaps the strongest case of dissatisfaction was that of a small businessman.
▪ Home owners, customers with overdrafts and small businessmen.
▪ Once upon a time the physician was a small businessman who ran his own practice.
▪ However, such schemes rest on the assumption that the small businessman already has an idea he wishes to develop.
▪ Taylor has won the gratitude of many small businessmen for shouting what many have been whispering.
▪ Existing and potential small businessmen will also be interviewed.
▪ What's the difference between a small businessman and a pigeon?
successful
▪ Galloway had made his way in life and was now a successful businessman.
▪ Perry, a successful businessman, brought a brisk and decisive managerial style to the Defense Department.
▪ He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman.
▪ Don Basilio is a successful businessman in the wool industry.
▪ Jaggard's first book was registered with the Stationers' Company on 4 March 1595; he rapidly became a successful businessman.
▪ He lied when he ran for governor on the platform of being a successful businessman and political outsider.
▪ Like all successful businessmen, John was willing to delegate responsibility to a trusted circle of people while he developed new contacts.
▪ Jay and I have taught tens of thousands of successful businessmen andwomen.
top
▪ And far from silently resenting the city fat cats, they believe top businessmen deserve success.
▪ He is starting to discuss the nation's problems with top businessmen.
▪ One of its features is a portrait of some top businessman anywhere in the world.
wealthy
▪ Woolgar was a wealthy Sussex businessman whose only son was the priest at St Joseph's in Banfield.
▪ But the wealthy businessmen who hitherto have been his best customers are counting their change these days.
▪ The wealthy London-based businessman said his loyalties were with Middlesbrough.
▪ Terry Lierman, a wealthy businessman and lobbyist, had been considered the leading candidate among Democrats to challenge Morella next year.
▪ For Nina Liebermann, solution was a chance acquaintance with a wealthy businessman.
▪ Arizonans have a habit of embracing wealthy businessmen with virtually no elective experience.
▪ He picked up a £142,000 payoff from wealthy businessman Braswell when Clinton granted him a pardon on his last day in office.
▪ It was the natural choice for the landed gentry and a symbol of aspiration for wealthy businessmen.
young
▪ The purpose of the meeting was to bring together young scientists, businessmen and journal publishers.
▪ Her new boyfriend was a young businessman and drove a Sprite and Pam thought he was a good catch.
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▪ As often as not, they were the names of her favourite businessmen of the moment.
▪ But the wealthy businessmen who hitherto have been his best customers are counting their change these days.
▪ Cantu and San Diego businessmen seem to have had a comfortable relationship.
▪ In certain cases individual businessmen had considerable success in setting companies on more prosperous paths.
▪ Mr Duvall is a businessman like yourself, Mr Briscoe!
▪ The businessmen accused the government of delivering too much inflation and too few tax cuts.
▪ Whether such a use results in the businessman trading on written standard terms and conditions, is probably a matter of degree.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Businessman

Businessman \Busi"ness*man`\ (b[i^]z"n[e^]s*m[a^]n`), a. a person employed in a business at a managerial level, especially an executive or proprietor.

Note: This term is seldom applied to technical specialists, unless they are part of upper management.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
businessman

1826, from business + man (n.). Man of business is recorded from 1660s.

Wiktionary
businessman

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

WordNet
businessman

n. a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) [syn: man of affairs]

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Wikipedia
Businessman (film)

Businessman, also known as The Businessman, is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language crime film written and directed by Puri Jagannadh. Based on a concept by Ram Gopal Varma and produced by R. R. Venkat under the banner R. R. Movie Makers, the film features Mahesh Babu and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles, with Nassar, Prakash Raj, Sayaji Shinde, Raza Murad and Brahmaji in supporting roles.

Mahesh plays Vijay Surya, a ruthless man who comes to Mumbai from South India aspiring to become a mafia don. Surya arrives just as the Mumbai police declare the end of the " Mafia Raj" and begins his journey by helping a local politician and trapping the city commissioner's daughter, only to fall in love with her. He eventually emerges as the biggest mafia leader of Mumbai and kills a national politician Jai Dev in retribution for cheating and murdering his parents.

S. Thaman composed the film's music and Shyam K. Naidu was the film's cinematographer. The film was made with a budget of 400 million and was launched formally on 15 August 2011 at Hyderabad. Principal photography began on 2 September 2011 and was shot in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Goa. A few song sequences were shot in Bangkok. Filming ended on 10 December 2011 in 74 working days, one of the shortest periods in which a Telugu film has been shot.

Released during Sankranthi on 13 January 2012, the film received mixed feedback from critics, but was commercially successful. It grossed more than 550 million and collected a distributor share of 448 million, eventually becoming one of the highest grossing Telugu films of 2012. The film was dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam with the same title in the same year and was remade into Bengali as Boss: Born to Rule in 2013.

Businessman (soundtrack)

Businessman is the feature film soundtrack of the 2012 crime-action film of the same name starring Mahesh Babu and Kajal Aggarwal. Directed by Puri Jagannath, the film's music and background score was composed by S. Thaman marking his first collaboration with him and Thaman's second collaboration with Mahesh Babu after Dookudu in 2011. The Official Soundtrack Album consists of 6 songs composed by S. Thaman and Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar penning the lyrics. Being recorded in 2011, the film's Soundtrack Album was launched on December 22, 2011 in a grand promotional event at Shilpakala Vedika, Hyderabad on Aditya Music label. The audio received positive response from both critics and audience alike. Musicperk.com, a famous music website rated Businessman as one of the best albums of the year 2012, rating it 9/10.

Businessman (disambiguation)

A businessman or businessperson is a business professional. (The) Businessman or (The) Business Man may refer to:

  • "The Business Man" (short story), a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Businessman (film), a film by Puri Jagannadh
  • The Businessman (novel), a novel by Thomas M. Disch

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.