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businessfolk

businessfolk noun: businesspeople.

Noun

businessfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) businesspeople
    • His co-committee member, Alex Mahon, is a former chief executive of Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group, connecting her to the exciting world of government-friendly media businessfolk, Cotswold kitchen-supper snafflers, and police horse-sharers, and to those most likely to monetise the vacant space...2015 July 19, Stewart Lee, “The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death”, in The Observer

Origin of businessfolk

From business + folk.

Questions about businessfolk

What does businessfolk mean?
Businessfolk means businesspeople.
What part of speech is businessfolk?
Businessfolk is a noun.

Words near businessfolk in the dictionary

  1. businesscrat
  2. businesscrats
  3. businesse
  4. businesses
  5. businessese
  6. businessfolk
  7. businessfolks
  8. businessless
  9. businesslessness
  10. businesslike
  11. businesslikely

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