business girl

business girl

1. A woman employed in an office or in business in general. The term is potentially diminutive and/or derogatory when used to refer to an adult woman. The boss always calls the women in his office his "business girls"—it's so degrading.
2. slang A female prostitute. A lot of business girls hang around this part of town at night.
See also: business, girl
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • of easy virtue
  • the woman on the street
  • woman of color
  • woman of means
  • a woman of few words
  • woman of many parts
  • a woman for all seasons
  • a woman of her word
  • badge bunny
References in periodicals archive
Hairstylist Dan agreed: "You look more working girl than business girl and we need to get you into some knickers."
My husband never wanted me to work in the first place." Indeed, polls of young men showed that they wanted wives who, as one survey put it, "specialized in homemaking." The same survey determined that less than 10 percent of men wanted a spouse who was a "business girl," as many a woman had become during the war.
"Many convenient and kid-friendly foods are bursting at the seams with artificial ingredients," explains Prewett, "so this back-to-school season, Tillamook partnered with [Detroit-based child entrepreneur] Super Business Girl Asia Newson for a De-Junk the Lunchbox campaign, empowering parents to replace foods packed with artificial ingredients with real food like Tillamook Yogurt and Tillamoos [Tillamook Cheese cut into snack sizes]."
Women, like diamonds have numerous facets: business girl during the day, a romantic in the evening in the arms of her loved one, relaxed and natural at the weekend in the company of friends.
The "business girl" was considered to be a new and different type of working woman.
HIGH-FLYING business girl Diana Wooding is settling into the Newmarket scene since her arrival in the town 18 months ago.
Sophie's taste veers erratically between that of 1980s Sloane Ranger and business girl about town.
The college girl category also included the white collar worker, or "business girl," whose corset needs presumably differed from older women who did not work outside the home.
Between the 1960s and 1990s, the business girl matured into the much-criticized and overworked businesswoman, whose daily routine was scrutinized by newspapers and weekly magazines.
Litherland-based allfemale gardening business Girl Garden Enterprises entered our first competition and although they didn't scoop top prize their business blossomed through exposure in the ECHO.
Taken off the face for a party look55 BUSINESS GIRL: Put back in a chignon to give it a more sophisticated look.
FLOWER POWER: Claire Jarvis and Nicky Stevenson, 23, who set up their business Girl Gardening Enterprises in 2002 with the Kickstart; campaign
It reported: "To see the Newcastle business girl, walking 30pc faster than her London sister, leave the electric trains from the coast each morning is to understand her fitness.
DIGGING IN: Nicola Stephenson and Claire Jarvis dig in with work at their gardening business Girl Garden Picture: COLIN LANE
"I was at the Hollywood Studio Club then where I lived with all these other show business girls. That's how I met him.