English > businessperson: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
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| Synonym | bourgeois |
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| Narrower | account executive, account representative, registered representative, customer's broker, customer's man | someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business |
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| accountant, comptroller, controller | someone who maintains and audits business accounts |
| agent, factor, broker | A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
| businessman, man of affairs | A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) |
| businesswoman | A female businessperson |
| entrepreneur, enterpriser | someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it |
| exporter | A businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) |
| importer | someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) |
| merchant, merchandiser | A businessperson engaged in retail trade |
| shipper | someone who ships goods |
| supplier, provider | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity |
| Broader | capitalist | A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) |
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| Spanish | burgués, comerciante, distribuidor, empresario, hombre de negocios, negociante, persona de negocios |
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| Catalan | empresari, home d'empresa, home de negocis |
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