man of affairs

Definitions of man of affairs

1. noun

   a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
   synonyms: businessman

   examples:

   Ezra Cornell

   United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

   Edward Henry Harriman

   United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)

   James Jerome Hill

   United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)

   Collis Potter Huntington

   United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)

   First Baron Marks of Broughton

   English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

   David Sarnoff

   United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)

   Leland Stanford

   United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)

   George Stephenson

   English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)

   Henry Villard

   United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)

   John Wanamaker

   United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)

   Aaron Montgomery Ward

   United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

   Frank Winfield Woolworth

   United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)

   Rudolf Wurlitzer

   United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)

   types:

   amalgamator

   a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies

   arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur

   someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)

   baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon

   a very wealthy or powerful businessman

   industrialist

   someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

   oilman

   a person who owns or operates oil wells

   operator

   someone who owns or operates a business

   owner, proprietor

   (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

   small businessman

   a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people

   suit

   (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit

   syndicator

   a businessman who forms a syndicate

   transactor

   someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations

   bookseller

   the proprietor of a bookstore

   concessionaire, concessioner

   someone who holds or operates a concession

   lease giver, lessor

   someone who grants a lease

   letter

   owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire

   oil tycoon

   a powerful person in the oil business

   patron

   the proprietor of an inn

   proprietress

   a woman proprietor

   newspaper publisher, publisher

   the proprietor of a newspaper

   renter

   an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person

   restauranter, restaurateur

   the proprietor of a restaurant

   saloon keeper

   the proprietor of a saloon

   supermarketeer, supermarketer

   an operator of a supermarket

   timberman

   an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering

   wildcatter

   an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field

   type of:

   bourgeois, businessperson

   a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise