Entrepreneur
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 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 someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it wordnet
- 3 A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario. archaic
- 4 A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between. figuratively, rare, sometimes
"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."
- 5 A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent. obsolete
Example
More examples"Scott is an entrepreneur with much spirit of enterprise."
Etymology
Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.
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