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entrepreneur

noun
/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/UK/ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː//ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/US/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.

  1. derived from entrepreneur
  2. borrowed from entrepreneur

Definitions

  1. A person who sets up a business

    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.

  2. A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments

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

  3. A person who serves as an intermediary

    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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person who manages an artist or performer

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

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Derived

agripreneur, artpreneur, bioentrepreneur, ecopreneur, enterprise, entreporneur, entreprenerd, entreprenertia, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial customer, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurially, entrepreneuring, entrepreneurism, entrepreneurship, fakepreneur, fantrepreneur, ganjapreneur, homepreneur, infopreneur, interprender, intrapreneur, microentrepreneur, momtrepreneur, mumpreneur, pastorpreneur, philanthropreneur, -preneur, regulatory entrepreneur, seniorpreneur, social entrepreneur, technopreneur, teenpreneur, tenderpreneur, unorthodox entrepreneur, wantrepreneur, webpreneur

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for entrepreneur. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA