Businessman vs. Taipan — What's the Difference?

A man who works in commerce, especially at executive level.

Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australia and New Guinea.

A man engaged in business. See Usage Note at chairman.

A powerful businessman in China or Southeast Asia.

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

The head of a British trading company in colonial Hong Kong.

A person employed in a business at a managerial level, especially an executive or proprietor.

Any of several large brown venomous elapid snakes of the genus Oxyuranus of Australia and New Guinea, especially O. scutellatus.

A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.

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Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia