businessperson

Other forms of businessperson

plural

businesspersons·

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 businessperson

What does businessperson mean?

businessperson means "a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise".

How many syllables are in businessperson?

businessperson has 4 syllables: busin-es-sper-son. The stress falls on "busin". In IPA it is /ˈbɪznəˈspɝsən/.

What is another word for businessperson?

Close synonyms include bourgeois. 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 businessperson a common word?

businessperson 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.