| 单词 | man of affairs |
| 释义 | man of affairs (once / 13432 pages) n WORD FAMILY man of affairs USAGE EXAMPLESHe has used the platform of a reality television show, NBC’s “The Apprentice,” to burnish his pop-culture image as a formidable man of affairs. New York Times(Jun 16, 2015) It is astonishing how often your visionary can get money out of your man of affairs when another man of affairs would fail. Onions, Oliver, Mushroom Town(2012) She struck me as a toy, well adapted to amuse a man of affairs, who felt the need of some distraction. Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de...(2012) n a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper businessman Ezra Cornell 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) Edward Henry HarrimanUnited States railway tycoon (1848-1909) James Jerome HillUnited States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) Collis Potter HuntingtonUnited States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900) First Baron Marks of BroughtonEnglish businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964) David SarnoffUnited States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971) Leland StanfordUnited States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) George StephensonEnglish railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848) Henry VillardUnited States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900) John WanamakerUnited States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922) Aaron Montgomery WardUnited States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) Frank Winfield WoolworthUnited States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919) Rudolf WurlitzerUnited States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914) William Maxwell AitkenBritish newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964) Andrew CarnegieUnited States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) Peter CooperUnited States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883) Glenn Hammond CurtissUnited States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930) Gottlieb DaimlerGerman engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900) John DeereUnited States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886) George EastmanUnited States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932) Henry FordUnited States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947) Edsel Bryant Fordson of Henry Ford (1893-1943) Henry Ford IIgrandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987) Henry Clay FrickUnited States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919) King Camp GiletteUnited States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932) Meyer GuggenheimUnited States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905) Alfred Charles William HarmsworthBritish newspaper publisher (1865-1922) Benjamin Harrispublisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713) William Randolph HearstUnited States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951) Henry John HeinzUnited States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919) William Henry HooverUnited States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932) Howard Robard HughesUnited States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976) Friedrich KruppGerman industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826) Edwin Herbert LandUnited States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) First Viscount NuffieldBritish industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963) Wilhelm von OpelGerman industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948) Elisha Graves OtisUnited States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) Robert OwenWelsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858) Sir Frederick Handley PageEnglish industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) Joseph PulitzerUnited States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911) John Davison RockefellerUnited States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) James Edmund ScrippsUnited States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908) Edward Wyllis ScrippsUnited States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926) Igor Ivanovich SikorskyUnited States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972) Ernest SolvayBelgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) amalgamator a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies arb, arbitrager, arbitrageursomeone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoona very wealthy or powerful businessman industrialistsomeone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise oilmana person who owns or operates oil wells operatorsomeone who owns or operates a business owner, proprietor(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business small businessmana businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people suit(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit syndicatora businessman who forms a syndicate transactorsomeone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations booksellerthe proprietor of a bookstore concessionaire, concessionersomeone who holds or operates a concession lease giver, lessorsomeone who grants a lease letterowner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire oil tycoona powerful person in the oil business patronthe proprietor of an inn proprietressa woman proprietor newspaper publisher, publisherthe proprietor of a newspaper renteran owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person restauranter, restaurateurthe proprietor of a restaurant saloon keeperthe proprietor of a saloon supermarketeer, supermarketeran operator of a supermarket timbermanan owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering wildcatteran oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field bourgeois, businessperson a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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