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Plural of businessman

irregular plural

The plural of businessman is businessmen.

Forms of businessman

Singularbusinessman /ˈbɪznəsmən/
Pluralbusinessmen
Countablecountable

Businessmen in a sentence

  • BERTIE Ahern's explanation that he received an envelope stuffed with £8,000 in cash following a whip-around by a group of Manchester-based businessmen was branded untrue by the Mahon Tribunal.2012 March 23, Colm Kelpie, “Claim of 'whip-around' by friends rubbished”, in Irish Independent
  • The businessmen rolled up the market by buying most of the major players.From the entry roll up
  • Groups of businessmen, housewives, classmates or neighbors may engage in hadaka no tsukiai.From the entry hadaka no tsukiai
  • The message from the Malaysian government to businessmen is clear: No more cronyism and no more “kautim” (Cantonese for “all settled”) culture.From the entry kautim
  • That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres.2015, Neil Humphreys, chapter 9, in Marina Bay Sins, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN. From the entry merlion

Meaning of businessman

  1. noun A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

Full definition of businessman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of businessman

What is the plural of businessman?
The plural of businessman is businessmen.
Is businessman countable?
Businessman is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: businessman (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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