Business-man

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of businessman. alt-of, archaic

    "Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley."

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"Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley."

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