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ENTREPRENEURIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrepreneurial mean? 

ENTREPRENEURIAL (adjective)
  The adjective ENTREPRENEURIAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to an entrepreneurplay

2. willing to take risks in order to make a profitplay

  Familiarity information: ENTREPRENEURIAL used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENTREPRENEURIAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to an entrepreneur

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

entrepreneurial risks

Pertainym:

entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)

Derivation:

entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Willing to take risks in order to make a profit

Similar:

enterprising (marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects)

Derivation:

entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)


 Context examples 


If you already have a business, you may take on a new client or project that leads you down a new pioneering and entrepreneurial path.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Entrepreneurial ventures are especially favored.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you’re self-employed, you may start an entrepreneurial project that you will invest in now, or you might appear in the press and receive superb publicity that will help you attract new clients.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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