man of affairs

Questions about man of affairs

What does man of affairs mean?

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

What is another word for man of affairs?

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

man of affairs 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.