businessmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From business +‎ -man. Displaced earlier merchant, ultimately from Latin mercāns (“merchant, buyer”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbɪznəsmən/, /ˈbɪznɪsmən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbɪznəsmæn/, /ˈbɪznəsmən/

名詞

businessman (plural businessmen)

1. A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

   Synonym: (gender-neutral) businessperson

   • 2005, “Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Jay-Z:

     I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man

   • 2012 March 23, Colm Kelpie, “Claim of 'whip-around' by friends rubbished”, in Irish Independent:

     BERTIE Ahern's explanation that he received an envelope stuffed with £8,000 in cash following a whip-around by a group of Manchester-based businessmen was branded untrue by the Mahon Tribunal.

   • 2017 September 30, Ross Douthat, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner”, in The New York Times‎:

     Needless to say the obituaries for Hefner, even if they acknowledge the seaminess, have been full of encomia for his great deeds: Hef the vanquisher of puritanism, Hef the political progressive, Hef the great businessman and all the rest.

派生語

派生した語

• → French: businessman
• → Irish: fear gnó (calque)
• → Macedonian: би́знисмен (bíznismen)
• → Polish: biznesmen
• → Romanian: businessman
• → Russian: бизнесме́н (biznɛsmén)
  • → Armenian: բիզնեսմեն (biznesmen)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бѝзнисмен

  Latin script: bìznismen

• → Slovak: biznismen

参考

• entrepreneur