types:
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accountant, comptroller, controller
someone who maintains and audits business accounts
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account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative
someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
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agent, broker, factor
a businessperson who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
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businessman, man of affairs
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
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businesswoman
a female businessperson
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enterpriser, entrepreneur
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
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exporter
a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)
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importer
someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
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merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade
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shipper
someone who ships goods
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provider, supplier
someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
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auctioneer
an agent who conducts an auction
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amalgamator
a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies
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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)
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auditor
a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
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baker
someone who bakes commercially
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baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
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bean counter
an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
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black marketeer
someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities
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book seller, bookdealer
a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books
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bookkeeper
someone who records the transactions of a business
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butcher, meatman
a retailer of meat
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caterer
someone who provides food and service (as for a party)
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CPA, certified public accountant
an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
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chartered accountant
a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter
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clothier, haberdasher
a merchant who sells men's clothing
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connection
a supplier (especially of narcotics)
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consigner, consignor
the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
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cost accountant
a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
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dispenser
a person who dispenses
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distributer, distributor
someone who markets merchandise
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grain merchant
a merchant who deals in food grains
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grocer
a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
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hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste
someone who makes and sells hats
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industrialist
someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
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general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker, underwriter
an agent who sells insurance
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investment banker, underwriter
a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities
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jeweler, jeweller
someone in the business of selling jewelry
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brothel keeper, madam
a woman who runs a house of prostitution
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oilman
a person who owns or operates oil wells
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operator
someone who owns or operates a business
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owner, proprietor
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
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poulterer, poultryman
a dealer in poultry and poultry products
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purveyor
someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
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estate agent, house agent, land agent, real estate agent, real estate broker
a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
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recruiter
someone who supplies members or employees
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retail merchant, retailer
a merchant who sells goods at retail
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rug merchant
a merchant who sells rugs
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salt merchant, salter
someone who makes or deals in salt
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schlockmeister, shlockmeister
(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
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marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor
someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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ship broker
an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge
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market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman
a merchant who owns or manages a shop
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small businessman
a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people
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stationer, stationery seller
a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies
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stockbroker
an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
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stockist
one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods
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suit
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
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provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler
a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
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syndic
one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
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syndicator
a businessman who forms a syndicate
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bargainer, dealer, monger, trader
someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
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transactor
someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations
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travel agent
someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers
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merchant-venturer, venturer
a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
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vintner, wine merchant
someone who sells wine