business people

1. 1.

   people who transact business (especially business executives)

   Synonymsbusinesspeople

   Broaderpeople

   commercial enterprise

Questions about business people

What does business people mean?

business people means "people who transact business (especially business executives)".

What is another word for business people?

Close synonyms include businesspeople. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is business people a common word?

business people is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.