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BIG BUSINESSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big businessman mean? 

BIG BUSINESSMAN (noun)
  The noun BIG BUSINESSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a very wealthy or powerful businessmanplay

  Familiarity information: BIG BUSINESSMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIG BUSINESSMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A very wealthy or powerful businessman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon

Context example:

an oil baron

Hypernyms ("big businessman" is a kind of...):

businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "big businessman"):

oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)


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