How many syllables in businessperson?

There are 5 syllables in the word businessperson.

How to pronounce businessperson:

businessperson (noun):: a person who is engaged in large-scale financial operations; a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise.; a person and especially an executive who transacts business a businessman or businesswoman

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