businessmen

noun

plural of businessman
as in entrepreneurs

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  1. entrepreneurs
  2. merchants
  3. traders
  4. buyers
Noun
  • Honestly on the scale of image-rehab to complete evisceration, Amodei is one of the few AI entrepreneurs to end up closer to the former in this film.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
  • After all, since most startups tend to fail, confidence is a value that successful entrepreneurs have to sustain.
    — Raghupathy Sivakumar, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of entrepreneurs
Noun
  • What struck me most was that independent merchants weren’t necessarily missing because AI couldn’t find them.
    — Dax Dasilva, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But in the early 1800s, Charleston was a bustling commercial hub, and Jewish merchants from a variety of backgrounds gravitated there in search of security and new opportunities.
    — Ashley Walters, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of merchants
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  • The yield on 30-year Treasurys briefly hit its highest level since 2002, with traders pricing in a 90% likelihood of a Federal Reserve rate hike by year-end driven by concerns over inflation.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Traders now see a 77% chance that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady at its October meeting, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool, though traders still see a high likelihood for a hike at its meeting in December.
    — Sarah Min,Davis Giangiulio,Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of traders
Noun
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
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