What is "businesspeople"

Usage examples of "businesspeople".

I guess the tourists stopped there when there were any, and a few businesspeople who came here.

Very respectable businesspeople in polite salons, eager to hear of the advantages of free trade and the prospects for opening spaceship yards.

Strat-talents were supposed to be good businesspeople, she reminded herself.

But most of the leaders in the Return cults are businesspeople, first and foremost.

Although richer by far than most of the aristocracy, they were businesspeople, and had no thought of spending half the year idly persecuting dumb animals in the countryside.

Negro businesspeople in Pittsburgh who owned a stationery and bookstore, a photography gallery, a loan company, a real estate company, and an insurance company.

Tourists, businesspeople, girls in trendy pantsuits, messengers on huge motorbikes.

The standard pattern for SAME-speakers specifies that when businesspeople agree to meet from 2:00 P.

A rapid glance before stashing them left me with an afterimage of an organization called the Human Rights Federation, with a stack of letterhead sponsors, each with a string of impressive-looking letters after his or her name: businesspeople, a few token trade-unionists, academics, engineers -- your standard-issue New Money think-tank front.

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics.

There were fewer elderly people dressed for vacationing, and more dark-suited businesspeople with grim, worried expressions on their faces and cellular telephones pressed to their ears.

One of those town-and-gown things where academics and businesspeople get together to discuss matters of mutual interest.

After dozens of phone calls, she and Penelope Briggs had managed to put together a consortium of parents, alums, local businesspeople, and miscellaneous Travelers who wanted to buy St.

The fallout from the scandal also sent shock waves through a shadowy consortium of power brokers, politicians, and businesspeople, many of whom had invested heavily in the rival firm on the basis of insider knowledge.

He heard the rumors swirling through the crowd, mostly well-dressed businesspeople, their faces creased with anguish and pain.