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Noun

S: (n) businessman, man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

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S: (n) amalgamator (a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies)
S: (n) arbitrageur, arbitrager, arb (someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential))
S: (n) baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon (a very wealthy or powerful businessman) "an oil baron"

S: (n) oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)

S: (n) industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
S: (n) oilman (a person who owns or operates oil wells)

S: (n) wildcatter (an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field)

S: (n) operator (someone who owns or operates a business) "who is the operator of this franchise?"

S: (n) supermarketer, supermarketeer (an operator of a supermarket)

S: (n) owner, proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business) "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants"

S: (n) bookseller (the proprietor of a bookstore)
S: (n) lessor, lease giver (someone who grants a lease)
S: (n) letter (owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire)
S: (n) patron (the proprietor of an inn)

S: (n) host, innkeeper, boniface (the owner or manager of an inn)

S: (n) hostess (a woman innkeeper)
S: (n) padrone (an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy)
S: (n) victualer, victualler (an innkeeper (especially British))

S: (n) proprietress (a woman proprietor)
S: (n) publisher, newspaper publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)

S: (n) press lord (a powerful newspaper proprietor)
S: (n) Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken (British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964))
S: (n) Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe (British newspaper publisher (1865-1922))
S: (n) Harris, Benjamin Harris (publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713))
S: (n) Hearst, William Randolph Hearst (United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951))
S: (n) Pulitzer, Joseph Pulitzer (United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911))
S: (n) Scripps, James Edmund Scripps (United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908))
S: (n) Scripps, Edward Wyllis Scripps (United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926))

S: (n) renter (an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person)
S: (n) restaurateur, restauranter (the proprietor of a restaurant)
S: (n) saloon keeper (the proprietor of a saloon)
S: (n) timberman (an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering)

S: (n) small businessman (a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people)

S: (n) concessionaire, concessioner (someone who holds or operates a concession)

S: (n) suit ((slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit) "all the suits care about is the bottom line"
S: (n) syndicator (a businessman who forms a syndicate)
S: (n) transactor (someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations)
S: (n) Cornell, 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))
S: (n) Harriman, E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman (United States railway tycoon (1848-1909))
S: (n) Hill, J. J. Hill, James Jerome Hill (United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916))
S: (n) Huntington, Collis Potter Huntington (United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900))
S: (n) Marks, Simon Marks, First Baron Marks of Broughton (English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964))
S: (n) Sarnoff, David Sarnoff (United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971))
S: (n) Stanford, Leland Stanford (United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893))
S: (n) Stephenson, George Stephenson (English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848))
S: (n) Villard, Henry Villard (United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900))
S: (n) Wanamaker, John Wanamaker (United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922))
S: (n) Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward (United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913))
S: (n) Woolworth, Frank Winfield Woolworth (United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919))
S: (n) Wurlitzer, Rudolf Wurlitzer (United States businessman (born in Germany) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914))

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