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entrepreneur definition

entre·pre·neur (än′trə prə nʉr′, -no̵or′, -nyo̵or′)

noun

a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit

Etymology: Fr < OFr entreprendre: see enterprise

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Alternate definitions:

business entrepreneur definition - business

finance entrepreneur definition - finance

entrepreneur Synonyms

entrepreneur

n.

organizer, manager, contractor, enterpriser; see administrator, businessperson.


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entrepreneur Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • bud: What advice would you have for budding young entrepreneurs?

Converse of subject

  • found: The business founded by entrepreneur Colin Chapman moved from southeast England to a former airfield at Hethel, near Wymondham, in 1966.

Adjective modifier

  • budding: Sinclair also had advice on where the budding entrepreneur should seek backing.

Modifies a noun

  • podcast: Interviews and practical advice for small business, startups and entrepreneurs podcast to the UK and the rest of the world.

Noun used with modifier

  • dotcom: Insurance and personal home they want understand that many hackersmany dotcom entrepreneurs.

Preposition: if

  • congress: Entrepreneurs if congress in the census lower health-care costs.

Preposition: of

  • tomorrow: An MBA for social entrepreneurs The Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship is committed to nurturing the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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entrepreneur quotes

Es asombroso ver en que¤   se puede convertir la revolucio¤  n rusa a trave¤  s del cerebro de un comerciante yanqui; basta ver las fotos de las revistas norteamericanas, nada ma¤  s que las fotos porque no se¤ leerlas, para comprender que nohay pueblo ma¤  s imbe¤  cil que e¤  se sobre la tierra; no puede haberlo porque tambie¤  n la capacidad de estupidez es limitada en la raza humana. It's astonishing to see what the Russian Revolution can become thanks to the brain of aYankee entrepreneur; you only have to see the photos in North American magazines, only the photos because I can't read them, to realize they're the most stupid people on earth; that's quite possible because even the human race has a limited potential for idiocy.

-Onetti,Juan Carlos

The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.

-Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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