homme d'affaires
Americannoun
PLURAL
hommes d'affairesExample Sentences
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L'équipe, financée par l'homme d'affaires Flavio Becca, ne paierait plus certains de ses coureurs.
From The Guardian
Voyez ce que j'ai ordre de vous dire, et de demander un r�ponse pour savoir si l'affaire vous agr�e; si vous avez pour agr�able, quelle en face, il sera n�cessaire que M. le Duc m'envoie un homme d'affaires, avec ses instructions, et ses assur�es que sera bien ... de celui qui est � vous; Rupert.
From Project Gutenberg
Evidemment, the government will need un computer �preferred usage: ordinateur�to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires, a term that could apply to a woman who does not know the bottom line from le topless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Je suis homme d'affaires—I am a man of business.
From Project Gutenberg
Heurteux, homme d'affaires, coming from the bright sunlight into the semi-darkness of the salon, blinked uncertainly, tried to distinguish his surroundings.
From Project Gutenberg
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