businesspeople

plural noun busi·ness·peo·ple \ -ˌpē-pəl \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of businesspeople

: persons active in business

Recent Examples of businesspeople from the Web

And there are those mysterious Chinese-speaking characters, who appeared as members of a military last episode and as businesspeople at the Mesa Hub in Season 1.

— sandra upson, WIRED, "Westworld Recap, Season 2 Episode 7: Decoding Da Vinci," 4 June 2018
The challenges aren’t confined to private businesspeople.

— stella yifan xie, WSJ, "Anbang Insurance Founder’s Stunning Fall Ends With 18-Year Prison Term," 10 May 2018
There have been social gatherings in the Capitol Hill mansion that lodges some of the consulate staff, with guestlists that have included Pacific Northwest businesspeople, politicians and Russian émigrés to the region.

— hal bernton, Anchorage Daily News, "With closure of Russia consulate in Seattle, hopes for Pacific ‘partnership’ fade," 27 Mar. 2018
There have been social gatherings in the Capitol Hill mansion that lodges some of the consulate staff, with guestlists that have included Pacific Northwest businesspeople, politicians and Russian émigrés to the region.

— hal bernton, The Seattle Times, "With closure of Russia consulate in Seattle, hopes for Pacific ‘partnership’ fade," 26 Mar. 2018
Yet the familiar grumbling of German businesspeople about the difficulties of doing business in China is now becoming deafening.

— andrea thomas, WSJ, "As Merkel Visits China, German Businesses Question Their Prospects," 23 May 2018
Celebrity businesspeople want to get in on the action, too.

— steve kurtz, Fox News, "HIGH TIMES FOR POT PROFIT SEEKERS," 8 May 2018
On one side were Islamists and leftists who feared a return to a one-man dictatorship, and on the other, unions and businesspeople who preferred a strong executive branch.

— taylor luck, The Christian Science Monitor, "Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope," 17 Apr. 2018
In November, the Saudi government detained approximately 200 government officials, businesspeople and royal family members, ostensibly to investigate allegations of widespread corruption.

— nicole gaouette and laura koran, CNN, "US rights report lashes Russia but neglects women's issues," 20 Apr. 2018

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