entrepreneur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French entrepreneur.
Pronunciation
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Noun
entrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs)
- A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
- 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
- Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
- A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
- A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- -preneur
- bioentrepreneur
- ecopreneur
- enterprise
- entrepreneurial
- entrepreneurialism
- entrepreneurially
- entrepreneuring
- entrepreneurship
- homepreneur
- infopreneur
- interprender
- intrapreneur
- microentrepreneur
- momtrepreneur
- mumpreneur
- pastorpreneur
- philanthropreneur
- social entrepreneur
- technopreneur
- teenpreneur
- tenderpreneur
- unorthodox entrepreneur
- wantrepreneur
- webpreneur
Related terms
Translations
person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk
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person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur
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person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting his own venture, service etc.
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References
- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
French
Etymology
From entreprendre + -eur.
Pronunciation
Noun
entrepreneur m (plural entrepreneurs, feminine entrepreneuse)
- entrepreneur (person who organizes and operates a business venture)
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: entrepreneur
- → Romanian: antreprenor
- → Spanish: emprendedor (calque)
Further reading
- “entrepreneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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