businessperson, bourgeois

engages in industrial commercial enterprise

• accountant, comptroller, controller — someone who maintains and audits business accounts
• account executive, account representative, registered representative, customer's broker, customer's man — someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
• agent, factor, broker — a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
• businessman, man of affairs — a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
• entrepreneur, enterpriser — someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
• exporter — a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)
• importer — someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
• merchant, merchandiser — a businessperson engaged in retail trade
• shipper — someone who ships goods
• supplier, provider — someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

• capitalist — a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)