Thesaurus results for BUSINESSMAN

businessman

noun

Definition of businessman

as in entrepreneur

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Recent Examples of businessman She's being challenged by Republican businessman Mike Minogue and the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, New Bedford City Councilor Shawn Oliver. — Digital Producer, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026 Erlichman’s rep, Ken Sunshine, confirmed the businessman’s death. — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026 The governor's race is tighter, one of the most competitive in the south between Republican nominee, billionaire businessman Rick Jackson and Democratic candidate, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026 One former businessman carried a two-dollar bill in his wallet as a good-luck charm to attract prosperity and wealth. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for businessman

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The entrepreneur built a media empire and has launched multiple brands based on her lifestyle and entertaining expertise.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Texas tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife Helen Sharp and their two children, 4-year-old Emma and 2-year-old Charlie, were killed in Sunday’s Learjet crash in Palm Beach County, their family confirmed in a statement.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of entrepreneur

Noun

Sometimes word clouds are big-budget supergraphics realized by design firms like Pentagram, but often they are produced cheaply and quickly by non-designers, or by anonymous Etsy merchants, or in-house at printing and signage companies.

— Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Owners who make their payments, keep clean bank statements and grow deposits can often move from a merchant cash advance to a term loan, then to a line of credit and eventually to bank or SBA financing at a fraction of the cost.

— Elliot Ashkenazie, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of merchant

Noun

Polymarket can, for example, see the number of trades being made, the total value of buys and sells, how much traders are wagering relative to their overall activity, and their total profits and losses.

— Melissa Lee,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
The cost of the drugs there and in the private market limits their use, the philanthropist and former energy trader John Arnold notes.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of trader

Noun

An economic model to forecast what a market or a buyer is likely to do, which cannot be faked by a chatbot with a confident tone.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Rosie Wrighting, Labour MP for Kettering and former fashion buyer for Asos, felt the budget was pro-growth.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026

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