| n. | 1. | A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
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| Noun | 1. |  man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)amalgamator - a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur - someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) big businessman, business leader, magnate, top executive, tycoon, baron, mogul, king, power - a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise industrialist - someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise oilman - a person who owns or operates oil wells operator - someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?" owner, proprietor - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" small businessman - a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people suit - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" syndicator - a businessman who forms a syndicate transactor - someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations |
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