Scott is an entrepreneur with much spirit of enterprise.
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Entrepreneur
/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
Synonyms for "entrepreneur" (68 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (20)
Noun(7 words)
Related words (34)
Noun(10 words)
industrialistsinternal entrepreneurintrapreneurlaunchersrestaurateursrisk takerscientific innovatorstartup founderventure creatorventurer
interagentintercederintercessorintermediaryintermediateintermediatorkinglittle businessmanmagnateman of commercemanagermediatormiddlemanorganizerplannerproducerprojectorpromoterstrategianstrategist
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- Closest matches in this entry: a, administrator, architect, backer, banker.
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Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
7 entriescorporate intrapreneureconomic founderinternal entrepreneurserial entrepreneursocial entrepreneurtech entrepreneurventure creator
Collocations
6 entriesentrepreneurial spiritentrepreneurial ventureentrepreneurship studiesserial entrepreneursocial entrepreneurtech entrepreneur
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
117 translations across 62 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- sipërmarrës noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐργολάβος noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Arabic
4 entries- مُتَعَهِّد noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- مُقَاوِل noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- مُلْتَزِم noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- مُنَظِّم noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Armenian
1 entries- ձեռներեց noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- biznesmen noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- iş adamı noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- sahibkar noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Bashkir
1 entries- эшҡыуар noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Belarusian
2 entries- прадпрыма́льнік noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- прадпрыма́льніца noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Bengali
1 entries- বিনিয়োগকারী noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Bulgarian
2 entries- предприема́ч noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- предприема́чка noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Catalan
2 entries- emprenedor noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- emprenedor noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 企業家 /企业家 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Czech
4 entries- podnikatel noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- podnikatel noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
- podnikatelka noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- podnikavec noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
Danish
2 entries- entreprenør noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- iværksætter noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Dutch
2 entries- entrepreneur noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- ondernemer noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Esperanto
2 entries- aferisto noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- entreprenisto noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Estonian
1 entries- ettevõtja noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Finnish
3 entries- yrittäjä noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- yrittäjä noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
- yrittäjä noun (person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting his own venture, service etc.)
French
2 entries- entrepreneur noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- entrepreneuse noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Georgian
1 entries- მეწარმე noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
German
3 entries- Entrepreneur noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- Unternehmer noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- Unternehmerin noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Greek
2 entries- επιχειρηματίας noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- εργολάβος noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
Hebrew
1 entries- יַזָּם noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Hindi
3 entries- उद्यमी noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- उद्यमी noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
- व्यवसायी noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Hungarian
1 entries- vállalkozó noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Indonesian
1 entries- wirausaha noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Irish
1 entries- fiontraí noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Italian
2 entries- imprenditore noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- imprenditrice noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Japanese
4 entries- アントルプルヌール noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- アントレプレナー noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- 事業家 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- 企業家 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Kazakh
1 entries- кәсіпкер noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Khmer
1 entries- សហគ្រិន noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Korean
3 entries- 기업가 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- 기업인 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- 사업가 noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ишкер noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Lao
1 entries- ຜູ້ປະກອບການ noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Latvian
1 entries- uzņēmējs noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Lithuanian
2 entries- verslininkas noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- verslininkė noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Macedonian
2 entries- претприемач noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- претприемачка noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Malay
1 entries- usahawan noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Māori
1 entries- rakahinonga noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- entreprenør noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Persian
3 entries- صاحبکار noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- کارآفرین noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- کارخانهدار noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wirtschofta noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Polish
2 entries- przedsiębiorca noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- przedsiębiorczyni noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Portuguese
2 entries- empreendedor noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- empreendedora noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Romanian
2 entries- antreprenoare noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- antreprenor noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Russian
2 entries- предпринима́тель noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- предпринима́тельница noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- preduzetnica noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- preduzetnik noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- pȍduzētnica noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- pȍduzētnīk noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Slovak
2 entries- podnikateľ noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- podnikateľka noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Slovene
2 entries- podjetnica noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- podjetnik noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Southern Altai
1 entries- аргачы noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Spanish
4 entries- comerciante noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- emprendedor noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- emprendedor noun (person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur)
- emprendedor comercial noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Swahili
1 entries- mjasiriamali noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Swedish
1 entries- entreprenör noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Tagalog
1 entries- maninikap noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Tajik
2 entries- корхонадор noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- соҳибкор noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Tatar
1 entries- эшкуар noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้ประกอบการ noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Turkish
3 entries- atılımcı noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- girişimci noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- müteşebbis noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Turkmen
1 entries- telekeçi noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Ukrainian
2 entries- підприє́мець noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- підприє́мниця noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Uzbek
1 entries- tadbirkor noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chủ doanh nghiệp noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Welsh
2 entries- dyn busnes noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
- entrepreneur noun (person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Everyone is an entrepreneur.
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I am an entrepreneur.
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Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as a successful entrepreneur.
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Common questions
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