BUSINESSPERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does businessperson mean? 

• BUSINESSPERSON (noun)
  The noun BUSINESSPERSON has 1 sense:

1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

  Familiarity information: BUSINESSPERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESSPERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bourgeois; businessperson

Hypernyms ("businessperson" is a kind of...):

capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))

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

accountant; comptroller; controller (someone who maintains and audits business accounts)

account executive; account representative; customer's broker; customer's man; registered representative (someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business)

agent; broker; factor (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)

enterpriser; entrepreneur (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))

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

shipper (someone who ships goods)

provider; supplier (someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity)

 Context examples 

The person in question will be your marriage partner, steady romantic partner, or someone you think of as a partner in commerce, such as a business partner, agent, publicist, social media manager, writing partner, or another businessperson with whom you have a serious one-on-one relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)