English > man of affairs: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
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| Synonym | businessman |
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| Instances | Cornell, Ezra Cornell | United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874) |
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| Harriman, E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman | United States railway tycoon (1848-1909) |
| Hill, J. J. Hill, James Jerome Hill | United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) |
| Huntington, Collis Potter Huntington | United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900) |
| Marks, Simon Marks, First Baron Marks of Broughton | English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964) |
| Sarnoff, David Sarnoff | United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971) |
| Stanford, Leland Stanford | United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) |
| Stephenson, George Stephenson | English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848) |
| Villard, Henry Villard | United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900) |
| Wanamaker, John Wanamaker | United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922) |
| Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward | United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) |
| Woolworth, Frank Winfield Woolworth | United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919) |
| Wurlitzer, Rudolf Wurlitzer | United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914) |
| Narrower | amalgamator | A businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies |
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| arbitrageur, arbitrager, arb | 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) |
| baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon | A very wealthy or powerful businessman |
| 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 |
| owner, proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business |
| small businessman | A businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people |
| suit | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit |
| syndicator | A businessman who forms a syndicate |
| transactor | someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations |
| Broader | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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| Spanish | empresario, hombre de negocios, negociante |
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| Catalan | empresari, home d'empresa, home de negocis |
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