| businessman | | |
| n. (person) | 1. businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ amalgamator | a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies. |
| ~ arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur | 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). |
| ~ big businessman, business leader, magnate, top executive, tycoon, baron, king, mogul, power | a very wealthy or powerful businessman.; "an oil baron" |
| ~ bourgeois, businessperson | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
| ~ industrialist | someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise. |
| ~ oilman | a person who owns or operates oil wells. |
| ~ operator | someone who owns or operates a business.; "who is the operator of this franchise?" |
| ~ owner, proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business.; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" |
| ~ small businessman | a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people. |
| ~ suit | (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" |
| ~ syndicator | a businessman who forms a syndicate. |
| ~ transactor | someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations. |
| ~ ezra cornell, 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). |
| ~ e. h. harriman, edward henry harriman, harriman | United States railway tycoon (1848-1909). |
| ~ j. j. hill, james jerome hill, hill | United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916). |
| ~ collis potter huntington, huntington | United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900). |
| ~ first baron marks of broughton, marks, simon marks | English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964). |
| ~ david sarnoff, sarnoff | United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971). |
| ~ leland stanford, stanford | United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893). |
| ~ george stephenson, stephenson | English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848). |
| ~ henry villard, villard | United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900). |
| ~ john wanamaker, wanamaker | United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922). |
| ~ aaron montgomery ward, montgomery ward, ward | United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913). |
| ~ frank winfield woolworth, 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). |
| ~ rudolf wurlitzer, wurlitzer | United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914). |
| dealer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bargainer, dealer, monger, trader | someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold. |
| ~ art dealer | a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation. |
| ~ barterer | a trader who exchanges goods and not money. |
| ~ bibliopole, bibliopolist | a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books). |
| ~ cheesemonger | someone who sells cheese. |
| ~ barrow-boy, barrow-man, costermonger | a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow. |
| ~ cutler | a dealer in cutlery. |
| ~ draper | a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods). |
| ~ fence | a dealer in stolen property. |
| ~ fishmonger, fishwife | someone who sells fish. |
| ~ horse trader | a hard bargainer. |
| ~ hardwareman, ironmonger | someone who sells hardware.; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger" |
| ~ mercer | a dealer in textiles (especially silks). |
| ~ merchandiser, merchant | a businessperson engaged in retail trade. |
| ~ seedman, seedsman | a dealer in seeds. |
| ~ slop-seller, slopseller | a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing. |
| ~ stamp dealer | a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors). |
| ~ stock trader | someone who buys and sells stock shares. |
| n. (group) | 2. dealer | a firm engaged in trading. |
| ~ business firm, firm, house | the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.; "he worked for a brokerage house" |
| ~ car dealer | a firm that sells and buys cars. |
| ~ computer dealer | a firm that sells and buys computers. |
| ~ jewelry dealer, jewelry store | a firm that sells and buys jewelry. |
| ~ truck dealer | a firm that sells and buys trucks. |
| n. (person) | 3. dealer | a seller of illicit goods.; "a dealer in stolen goods" |
| ~ drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher | an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs. |
| ~ marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor | someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money. |
| n. (person) | 4. dealer, principal | the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account. |
| ~ broker-dealer | a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. |
| ~ financier, moneyman | a person skilled in large scale financial transactions. |
| n. (person) | 5. dealer | the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game. |
| ~ card player | someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games. |
| entrepreneur | | |
| n. (person) | 1. enterpriser, entrepreneur | someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it. |
| ~ bourgeois, businessperson | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
| ~ bill gates, gates, william henry gates | United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955). |
| ~ clive sinclair, sir clive marles sinclair, sinclair | English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940). |
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