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

account executive

account representative

accountant

agent

bourgeois

broker

business executive

businessman

businesswoman

buyer

capitalist

comptroller

contractor

controller

customer's broker

customer's man

dealer

director

distributor

enterpriser

entrepreneur

executive

exporter

factor

financier

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