Definition of businessman
:a man who transacts business;
especially
:a business executive
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I know it's hard for him to sell his paintings. He's always been a better artist than businessman.
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In this Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, photo, a Twitter page of Chinese exiles businessman Guo Wengui is seen on a computer screen in Beijing.
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Rick Quinn voted for Trump in Michigan on the hope that a billionaire businessman could help little guys like him.
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Soon after the pictures surfaced, he was identified as Hassan Jameel, a Saudi Arabian businessman whose family is worth $1.5 billion.
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More: Nashville one of four cities energized for MLS expansion, commissioner says The potential partnership is led by Nashville businessman John Ingram, who is the lead investor in the MLS proposal and the primary Vanderbilt athletics benefactor.
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Specifically Tom D’Agostino, the wealthy New York businessman whom Real Housewife Luann de Lesseps married in January despite her own better judgment and the pleading advice of close friends and frenemies.
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With a once-every-five-years Communist Party congress coming up in the fall, President Xi Jinping and his political allies don’t want to make more enemies of powerful businessmen, many of whom are already angry at China’s anti-corruption drive.
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In such places, criticising a powerful politician or businessman, publicising wrongdoing or merely expressing an opinion can lead to bankruptcy or jail, regardless of whether the criticism actually hurts anyone.
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Rauner, a former businessman, won election in 2014 with a promise to make Illinois more business-friendly, strip union influence and change politics as usual.
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1803
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