Meanings
plural Bessents
- A surname.
Hassett said Monday on CNBC that Bessent is helping lead Trump’s search for Fed chair.
2025 August 5, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 25 Aug 20251 more example
Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.
2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025
Cite this entry
Bessent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bessent
“Bessent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bessent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bessent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bessent.
Source: Bessent on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.