Other forms: businesswomen
A businesswoman is a woman who works in trade or runs a company. A successful businesswoman, a local businesswoman, the businesswoman's account.
The word is still used far more often than businessman is qualified by man, which is what marking the exception looks like. Business person and business people are the neutral alternatives.
1nounbusinesswomanA woman who works in trade or runs a company.
“The successful businesswoman started her first company at her kitchen table.”
businesswoman is a person.
Middle English
bisynes
English
business
English, today
businesswoman
From business + -woman. business comes from Middle English bisynes. From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + ness. a doublet of busyness. Sense 17 (something very good, top quality), possibly derives from "the bee's knees"
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