UNIT 10: Businesspeople and business leaders

businessman / businesswoman / businessperson

businessperson / businesspeople

someone who works in their own business or as a manager in an organization

entrepreneur

someone who starts or founds or estabilishes their own company

a founder

someone who starts a company

start-ups

an entrepreneur may found a series of companies

entrepreneurial

used in a positive way to describe the risk-taking people who do this, and their activities

establishment

used to talk about the act of founding something as well as a particular organization, or part of one

a business empire

a large group of companies mainly owned by one person or family

business leaders or captains of industry (old-fashioned journalistic)

successful businesspeople, especially heads of large organizations

magnates, moguls or tycoons

• media magnate

• property mogul

• software tycoon

people in charge of big business empires may be referred to