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ENTREPRENEUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does entrepreneur mean?
• ENTREPRENEUR (noun)
The noun ENTREPRENEUR has 1 sense:
1. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
Familiarity information: ENTREPRENEUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
enterpriser; entrepreneur
Hypernyms ("entrepreneur" is a kind of...):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
Instance hyponyms:
Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates (United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955))
Clive Sinclair; Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940))
Derivation:
entrepreneurial (willing to take risks in order to make a profit)
entrepreneurial (of or relating to an entrepreneur)
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