a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
Origin of businessman
First recorded in 1705–15; business + man
Words nearby businessman
business English, business envelope, business intelligence, businesslike, business machine, businessman, businessman's holiday, business park, businesspeople, businessperson, business plan
In 1961, Hulanicki married Stephen “Fitz” Fitz-Simon, a young British businessman whom she met at a party in London.
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Throughout the race, the businessman, rancher, and former Democrat has vowed not to caucus with either party if he won.
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Recently in Cairo I sat at a dinner party next to an elderly Islamic businessman.
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It showed a businessman holding a small computer in his hand.
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You keep describing Lemond as a person in power, and a businessman.
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All he claimed to be was a businessman who paid his debts and who tried to make others pay theirs.
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During those years George Peabody had emerged from a clerkship into a Businessman.
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A businessman's concern is with business; he leaves abstractions to visionaries.
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He entered as an American businessman, a camera importer who was also interested in doing a bit of tourist sightseeing.
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Kinahanglan tumbatumba ang nigusiyanti, A businessman has to be flexible when it comes to politics.
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British Dictionary definitions for businessman
businessman
/ (ˈbɪznɪsˌmæn, -mən) /
nounplural-men
a person, esp a man, engaged in commercial or industrial business, esp as an owner or executive
usage for businessman
There is a gender-neutral form, businessperson, but it does not appear to be very widely used. The plural business people is quite widely used, and if you wish to avoid being gender-specific, you could try recasting your sentence to use the plural