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How to use businessman in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Businessman means a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution. Example: “Astute businessman though he was, my brother was capable of extreme recklessness.”

Examples of businessman by meaning

nounA man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

  • I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man2005, “Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Jay-Z
  • 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
  • Needless to say the obituaries for Hefner, even if they acknowledge the seaminess, have been full of encomia for his great deeds: Hef the vanquisher of puritanism, Hef the political progressive, Hef the great businessman and all the rest.2017 September 30, Ross Douthat, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner”, in The New York Times

More sentences with businessman

  • Astute businessman though he was, my brother was capable of extreme recklessness.From the entry though
  • The successful businessman was knighted and acquired a handle to his name.From the entry handle
  • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.From the entry dirt
  • As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."From the entry trick
  • He is a scrupulous businessman and always acts in the best interest of his company.From the entry scrupulous
  • He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.From the entry deep down
  • The businessmen rolled up the market by buying most of the major players.From the entry roll up
  • He disguised himself as a businessman to blend in with the others wearing suits.From the entry blend in
  • The ruthless businessman thought little of bribing or eliminating his competitors.From the entry think little of
  • Groups of businessmen, housewives, classmates or neighbors may engage in hadaka no tsukiai.From the entry hadaka no tsukiai
  • On the surface, the spy looked like a typical businessman.From the entry surface
  • He's a shrewd businessman: there's no green in his eye.From the entry green in one's eye
  • That guy wants to appear as a serious and formal businessman and not talk about his side gig where he deals drugs on the street.From the entry side gig
  • 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
  • Musk, who is both a successful businessman and a freewheeling personal brand, appears to be an exception.2021 May 7, Taylor Lorenz, “Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry personal brand
  • The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman.2019, The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back.…. From the entry North Macedonian
  • 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
  • Jorge Figueiredo Correia, a scribe of the Royal Treasury and a great businessman, became a donatary.2014, Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil, page 12. From the entry donatary
  • The clothing for us western businessmen is the classic suit and tie.2014, Rolf Zeiler, Asia with suit and tie. From the entry suit and tie
  • The businessman lost no time in slapping legal notices against every television channel which broadcast the conference.2014 May 29, Saurav Datta, “Hush — slander is a criminal offence in India”, in Index on Censorship, UK, retrieved 29 May 2014. From the entry libel chill
  • Yet that did not make them racists or proto-racists, but pragmatic businessmen.2011, Judith Ridner, A Town In-Between, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry proto-racist
  • The Lak People's Movement was headed by a famous former sportsman-karatist and businessman named Magomed Khachilaev.2009, Robert Bruce Ware, Enver Kisriev, Dagestan. From the entry karatist
  • The slick businessman, with a patronising air for those less experienced than he was?2008, Ann Purser, Warning at One, →ISBN. From the entry sod that for a game of soldiers
  • Being a businessman, he was often out at night entertaining clients.2007, Veronica Li, “Eating Bitter Squash”, in Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home, First American edition…. From the entry Wenchou
  • Son, the cyber dissident, is a businessman who holds graduate degrees in business administration and medicine.2006, Claudia Derichs, Thomas Heberer, The Power of Ideas, →ISBN. From the entry cyber dissident
  • It shouldn't matter whether a murderer tips you or a businessman.2000, Adam Berlin, Headlock, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry a buck's a buck
  • Even distinguished businessmen went out, got newted and did stupid things on Saturday night.1993, Bill Buford, Best of Young British Novelists, volume 2, page 54. From the entry newted
  • When the businessmen quit, there had been two other men eager to take their chairs.1989, Jean Haught, Prisoner of Passion (A Zebra Romance), London: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry cardsharp
  • Or the so-called well-adjusted, productive businessman, and so forth, who is clinically sane by the same standards?1985, Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer, Conversations with Walker Percy, page 111. From the entry bad off
  • Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen.1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady", archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023. From the entry briskness
  • In the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2023. From the entry crackdown
  • Mahmood of disguising himself as an Arab businessman and trying to entice him to make anti-Semitic comments over lunch.2014 November 19, Katrin Bennhold, “A Tabloid ‘Fake Sheikh,’ Bane of Crooks and Royalty, Finds He’s Now the Story”, in New York Times…. From the entry blow someone's cover
  • Donated to the city by Auckland businessman J.M.2011, Tanja Bueltmann, Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, page 170. From the entry Scottie
  • Shady looking thicknecks accompany the businessmen and other types.2002, Peter Konecny, Gogol's Ghost, page 131. From the entry thickneck
  • The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202. From the entry lecher
  • From being a born-and-bred townie from north London, to a 36-year-old part-time farmer and full-time businessman is no mean achievement.1998, Ken Ashton, “Preface”, in Graham Irwin, A Farm of Our Own, page 8. From the entry townie
  • Just between the coders and the businessmen, there are conflicts.1996 February, Jean-Hugues Roy, quoting Arthur Kroker, “Way New Leftists”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry virtual class

Meaning of businessman

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

Full definition of businessman

Questions about businessman in a sentence

How do you use businessman in a sentence?
Businessman is used as a noun. For example: “Astute businessman though he was, my brother was capable of extreme recklessness.”
What is a short sentence with businessman?
“Donated to the city by Auckland businessman J.M.”
What does businessman mean?
Businessman means a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

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