Businesspeople Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

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On its way, Ridge Road passes many fine houses, some of which belong to college faculty and some to the city’s more successful businesspeople—doctors, lawyers, bankers, and top-of-the-pyramid business executives.

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Clark Collis, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023

Theranos had attracted prominent businesspeople and statesmen as investors or board directors, including George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison.

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Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022

Yet a slew of obituaries of prominent businesspeople, academics and celebrities imply a broader and more deadly outbreak, reports the Financial Times.

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Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023

From 1992 to 2021, Nemirovskaya reckons, more than 30,000 people—parliamentarians, city-council members, businesspeople, journalists—attended their seminars around the country on law, elections, and media.

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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022

The split with Qatar coincided with a crackdown on dissent in Saudi Arabia, and dozens of religious clerics, businesspeople, royal family members, writers and activists across the political spectrum were arrested over the following years.

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Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022

Planning officials spent the spring and summer talking to other city departments, service providers, businesspeople, advocates and people experiencing homelessness to figure out how to improve the road map to building new shelters.

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Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022

Inland’s five-member board consisted of four local businesspeople, two of whom were among Windwave’s buyers, and Rep. Greg Smith, who represents Morrow County in the state Legislature.

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Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022

Athletes are no different than businesspeople in this way.

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Anthony Wong, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022

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