What is "small businessman"

Usage examples of "small businessman".

It was more than three years since his last visit, and for this he offered the lame excuse that the political situation in Russia was too uncertain, which apparently would not permit even the briefest absence of a small businessman while it allowed hundreds of thousands of Russians to travel peacefully abroad.

Again: better a small businessman working till midnight than a small businessman bankrupt and relief.

The typical small businessman, however, reserves a very special scorn for deficit spending.

My suspicion is that the big winner's just a regular fellow maybe a salesman, or a small businessman-who wanted to play with the high rollers and ended up getting luckier than he had any right to.

As he stepped through the portal from the small office into the main corridor of the commerce clearing house, his face was composed into the look of boredom common to many small businessmen, a look perfectly within character, since eighty percent of the time he was in fact a small businessman specializing in the brokering of odd lots of obscure jellies.

Every small businessman lives with the knowledge that he is always in violation of some of the rules.

The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small businessman is diminishing in numbers.