businessman

Other forms of businessman

plural

businessmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about businessman

What does businessman mean?

businessman means "a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)".

How many syllables are in businessman?

businessman has 3 syllables: busin-es-sman. The stress falls on "busin". In IPA it is /ˈbɪznəˌsmæn/.

What is another word for businessman?

Close synonyms include man of affairs. 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 businessman a common word?

businessman is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with businessman?

1 word rhymes with businessman. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.