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businessfolk

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Etymology

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From business +‎ folk.

Noun

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businessfolk pl (plural only)

  1. businesspeople
    • 2015 July 19, Stewart Lee, “The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death”, in The Observer[1]:
      His co-committee member, Alex Mahon, is a former chief executive of Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group, connecting her to the exciting world of government-friendly media businessfolk, Cotswold kitchen-supper snafflers, and police horse-sharers, and to those most likely to monetise the vacant space left in broadcasting should she and her colleagues have, regrettably, to reform the BBC out of existence.