businessman
English Thesaurus
1. a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | bourgeois, businessperson, |
| definition | : | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | amalgamator, |
| definition | : | a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur, |
| definition | : | someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | industrialist, |
| definition | : | someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | oilman, |
| definition | : | a person who owns or operates oil wells (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | operator, |
| definition | : | someone who owns or operates a business (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | owner, proprietor, |
| definition | : | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | small businessman, |
| definition | : | a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | suit, |
| definition | : | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | syndicator, |
| definition | : | a businessman who forms a syndicate (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | transactor, |
| definition | : | someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cornell, ezra cornell, |
| definition | : | United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | collis potter huntington, huntington, |
| definition | : | United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | david sarnoff, sarnoff, |
| definition | : | United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | leland stanford, stanford, |
| definition | : | United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | george stephenson, stephenson, |
| definition | : | English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henry villard, villard, |
| definition | : | United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john wanamaker, wanamaker, |
| definition | : | United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | frank winfield woolworth, woolworth, |
| definition | : | United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | rudolf wurlitzer, wurlitzer, |
| definition | : | United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914) (noun.person) |
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