entrepreneur

UK /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/ US /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/

noun 4

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(noun.)

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Definitions

noun

A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.

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 concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.

A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.

Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.

A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.

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Synonyms

noun — someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the ris

enterpriser

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.

Wiktionary

Scott is an entrepreneur with much spirit of enterprise.

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Everyone is an entrepreneur.

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I am an entrepreneur.

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Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as a successful entrepreneur.

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In some senses, entrepreneur is marked as archaic, figuratively, obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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