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entrepreneur
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Word definitions for entrepreneur in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrepreneur \En`tre*pre*neur"\, n. [F. See Enterprise .] (Polit. Econ.) One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, "manager or promoter of a theatrical production," reborrowing of French entrepreneur "one who undertakes or manages," agent noun from Old French entreprendre "undertake" (see enterprise ). The word first crossed the Channel late 15c. (Middle English ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Entrepreneur is a North American magazine and website that carries news stories about entrepreneurship , small business management, and business . The magazine was first published in 1977. It is published by Entrepreneur Media Inc., headquartered in Irvine, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE individual ▪ Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was. ▪ A definition of success can be as different as every individual entrepreneur ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk. 2 A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur. 3 A person who thrives for success ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it [syn: enterpriser ]
Usage examples of entrepreneur.
The Kansas City Barbeque Guild rented the space and barbeque entrepreneurs shared it.
Malinowski thought of himself as a cryptozoologist more than a software entrepreneur.
And at that time every footloose wanderer and entrepreneur in the Galaxy will start for the Eryx Region to make his fortune.
It was a diplomatic answer to conceal his resentment of the admiration Ty had shown toward the freewheeling entrepreneur.
Like their nineteenth-century spiritual ancestors, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, the high-tech computer entrepreneurs of the 1970s and 1980s -- people such as Wozniak, Jobs, Kapor, Gates, and H.
It would follow and, where possible, preserve the original trail made through the swamps and forest by Kentucks, entrepreneurs out of what would become Kentucky, walking back home after rafting goods down the Mississippi to be sold at the port in Natchez, and by the outlaws who preyed upon them, by Indians trading and warring and finally by soldiers of the Union Army bent on bringing the South to heel.
In light of the evidence now being flung about by the wrangling board members, Zared appeared to be overconservative and lacking in the vision and drive that mark an effective galactic entrepreneur.
Visitors would leave first, followed by all those deemed nonessential: astronomers, mathematicians, chemists, hydroponics experts, entrepreneurs, recreation directors, general maintenance workers, and everyone else not needed to launch spacecraft or keep the power on.
Their owner is an agalmic entrepreneur, a posthuman genius locii of the net who catalyses value wherever he goes, leaving money trees growing in his footprints.
It was, after all, common for prominent high-tech entrepreneurs to drop from view, after they had made their fortunes.
The big deal was to put payloads into orbit, and that was the route that most entrepreneurs took.
Thus preoccupied, most entrepreneurs remained wary of the buggy, moccasin-infested wetlands below the Tamiami Trail.
Big Boy restaurants spread from coast to coast, Wian also sold franchises to other entrepreneurs around the country.
Although each company owned a small core of its own restaurants, most of their rapid growth was achieved by selling franchises to local or regional entrepreneurs.
On the contrary, the hackers of this conference were mostly well-to-do Californian high-tech CEOs, consultants, journalists and entrepreneurs.