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a businessman or a businesswoman
a person who works in their own business or is a manager in a company or organisation
She's a very successful businesswomen who runs her own company.
an entrepreneur:
a person who starts his or her own business
He's a real entrepreneur. As soon as he's set up one business successfully, he's looking for his next challenge.
a self-made man or a self-made woman:
a person who is rich and successful because of his or her own work
He came from quite a poor background. But he's a self-made man and is now incredibly wealthy.
a magnate, a mogul, a tycoon or a baron:
a person who is in charge of a big business or who owns a lot of businesses. Here are some of the industries and business which collocate (go with) with these words:
a shipping magnate
a movie/media/industry mogul
a business/property/shipping tycoon
a press/media/drugs baron
self-employed:
work for yourself, not for someone else
She hated working for her last boss so she decided to start her own business and loves being self-employed now.
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an office:
a room or part of a building in which people work, especially sitting at tables with computers, telephones, etc.
He doesn't like working in an office all day. He'd rather be out and about meeting people.
an open-plan office:
an office which has few or no walls inside, so it is not divided into smaller rooms. An office where a lot of people all work together
We work in a huge open-plan office so it's difficult to have any privacy.
head quarters (HQ):
the main offices of an organization or a business
Microsoft's HQ is in Washington in the USA.
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a full-time job:
work that you do for the whole of the normal working week
She's got two kids but still manages to hold down a full-time job.
a part-time job:
work that you do for only part of the normal working week
He has a part-time job in a shop and spends the other two days a week working on his art projects.
a permanent job:
work that doesn't finish after a fixed period of time
She was lucky to get a permanent job in teaching. Now she has a job for life, if she wants.
a temporary job or a fixed-term contract:
work that finishes after a fixed period of time
I've got a temporary job for 4 weeks with the Post Office over the busy Christmas period.
flexible working or flexi-working:
when you are allowed to choose what time you start and finish your work and how many hours you do each day (as long as you do the required numbers of hours in a week)
They let me do flexi-working so I can come in late some mornings and just work a bit later in the afternoon. It's really handy when I have to drop the kids off at school.
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retiring
stopping work because you are a certain age (65 years old in Britain, for example)
heading off to the sun
going to a country with a warm climate
to take over the reins
to take responsibility for, or control of, something from someone else
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