Flavia, heartbroken, eventually married a competent and caring businessman after she was graduated from university.

"Through one, they saw me as a friend, as a competent businessman, as somebody to have a coffee or a brandy with," he said.

Graduates can become competent businessmen and entrepreneurs adept in decision-making, management and communications.

I don't think Carlo Gatti was eccentric, he was a self-made man and must certainly have been a very competent businessman.

In 1900, although he was not a competent businessman, Dresser became an acting partner in his publishing business, which was renamed "Haviland, Howley, and Dresser".

Oh, she's aware of your mathematical talents, Norma, and she knows I'm a competent businessman, but our skills do not count for anything with her.

'I'm going to the centre - I'll take you, Claudia, and Myra can look after the gown,' Roman said, reverting to a competent businessman.

Not any parlor-pink intellectual, you understand, but a good, competent American businessman.

I discovered that he was a very competent businessman with an uncanny memory for small details.

This causes Stuart great consternation as he attempts to conceal his own inabilities and maintain his reputation as an intelligent and competent businessman.