businessman

noun

busi·​ness·​man ˈbiz-nəs-ˌman 

-nəz-, 

-mən

: a man who transacts business

especially : a business executive

Examples of businessman in a Sentence

I know it's hard for him to sell his paintings. He's always been a better artist than businessman.

Recent Examples on the Web

Following that, the businessman is already looking forward to next year's fireworks bonanza on July 4th, when America celebrates 250 years as a country. —Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025

Operation Gatekeeper resulted in the arrests of two businessmen and a guilty plea from a Houston man and his company for smuggling the cutting-edge AI technology. —Magdalena Petrova,eamon Javers, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025

The stringent businessman makes Marty suffer and grovel for his money, at one point exerting his power by spanking the young man’s bare bottom with a wooden ping-pong paddle. —Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025

Bumble entrepreneur Erin Foster kicked off 2020 with a glamorous Nashville wedding to her businessman fiancé Simon Tikhman on New Year's Eve. —Laura Lane, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1803, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for businessman

• assemblyman
• carbofuran
• catamaran
• chipewyan
• illinoian
• newspaperman
• nurseryman
• afghan
• bedpan
• began
• caveman
• chapin

Kids Definition

businessman

noun

busi·​ness·​man ˈbiz-nə-ˌsman 

-nəz-ˌman

: a man in business especially as an owner or manager