0 a man who works in business, especially one who has a high position in a company: --
He was a successful businessman before becoming a writer.
1 a man who works in business, esp. one with a job in a company --
2 a man who works in business, especially one with an important position in a company or who owns his own company: --
a successful businessman
3 a man who understands a lot about business and making money: --
a good/shrewd businessman A shrewd businessman, he knew how to make a profit from his inventions.
The businessman is only the go-between, not the investor.
It brings the perspectives of the academic historian subsequently turned businessman to the study of a group often ignored by some historians.
He is a self-employed businessman and serving on the team took time away from his business.
She consistently preferred the maverick to the conventional, the outspoken to the cautious, the self-made businessman to the traditional director of the traditional family firm.
One of them, though he has a reputation as a tough businessman, is spiritually inclined.
He sees the current situation as a temporary period of guaranteeing savings, so that he can become a selfemployed businessman.
These are all public officeholders, of course, yet the biographical compendia also include each senator's nonofficial occupational identification (such as "dentist" or "businessman" or "lawyer").
At all events, he was a businessman, and one may be sure that he fitted science in around his hunting and not vice versa.