businessfolk en · NOUN
Etymology
From business + folk.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) businesspeople
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.
2015 July 19, Stewart Lee, “The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death”, in The Observer: