businessperson

A businessperson is a generic term for someone who is employed at a, usually, profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically, someone who is involved in the management (at any level) of a company. The term businessperson almost always refers to someone with a "white collar" occupation.

Businessperson is used in place of the words businessman or businesswoman to avoid sexism and to avoid unnecessarily perpetuating stereotypes if used generically.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

The terms businessman or businesswoman are sometimes used for gender specificity.^[9][10] However, the term businessperson, with the "-person" suffix, is noted to be more commonly used today than in the past.^[11][12][13]

See also

• Business magnate
• Entrepreneur
• Financier
• Industrialist
• List of corporate leaders
• Gender-neutral language

References

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