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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entrepreneur
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.
▪ Although its enormous diamond deposits have always attracted some interest, this has been limited to private companies and individual entrepreneurs.
▪ Institutions, individual entrepreneurs, and globe-trotting knowledge workers are finally realizing that anytime / anyplace work can work.
▪ Economic theory assumed that the company, like the individual entrepreneur, behaved as a profit-maximizing unit.
▪ Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur.
local
▪ The largely unintentional effect was that small local entrepreneurs had their confidence in the development prospects boosted by this creative strategy.
▪ Most potential local entrepreneurs are likely to know their area already and be less easily influenced than outsiders by image promotion.
new
▪ These new entrepreneurs - the bourgeoisie-relied for their accumulated economic wealth on the ownership of machines and factories rather than upon land.
▪ It is part of the learning proCess of any new entrepreneur.
▪ A new generation of entrepreneurs will have grown up.
▪ Yet many new entrepreneurs find it extremely difficult to ask anyone for money.
▪ It was the wealth of the new entrepreneurs, not that of their workmen, which was everywhere celebrated.
▪ The new civic entrepreneurs were also learning to be more self-reliant.
private
▪ Skilled artisans are employed by private entrepreneurs in units mainly of cottage-proportions, widely spread in villages and small towns.
▪ Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was.
▪ Traders and other private entrepreneurs also signed up in order to supplement their unregistered incomes.
▪ As a result private entrepreneurs were driven to combine into monopoly cartels and to reinvest surplus capital abroad.
▪ Class divisions have reappeared: private entrepreneurs grumble that ungrateful workers have forgotten how bad things were a year ago.
▪ As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls, they went on strike.
small
▪ The largely unintentional effect was that small local entrepreneurs had their confidence in the development prospects boosted by this creative strategy.
▪ This reliance on local initiative and talent has also accelerated the involvement of small entrepreneurs.
▪ As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls, they went on strike.
successful
▪ Again, like most successful entrepreneurs, he knows the value of showmanship.
▪ Most successful entrepreneurs are hard on themselves, in the sense that they are never easily satisfied.
▪ The plots were essentially the same; like any successful entrepreneur, Alger knew when he was on to a good thing.
▪ And there are many examples of successful partnerships-entrepreneurs who worked positively together to build a profitable business.
▪ Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
▪ Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur.
▪ In fact, most successful entrepreneurs get used to treating virtually everyone they meet as a possible piece of business.
▪ Martin Braid, a successful entrepreneur we talked to, is a soft-ware consultant much in demand.
young
▪ In 1915, Eubie teamed with an ambitious young entrepreneur, Noble Sissle, for vaudeville appearances.
▪ He advises young entrepreneurs not to worry if their business ideas sound weird, crazy or obscure.
▪ Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price.
▪ There is a grasping generation of young entrepreneurs.
▪ One is the younger breed of entrepreneur looking to get involved in e-business start-ups.
▪ Livewire offers help by giving free advice to young entrepreneurs.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Without business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs would have no way to pay the bills.
▪ The compassionate capitalist sees herself as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur at the same time.
▪ Certainly these bear no resemblance to the insecurity of the fortunes of the business entrepreneur of the competitive model.
▪ Your attitude and mine will make all the difference in our success as human beings and as business entrepreneurs.
▪ Geoffrey himself was unrecognisable as the well-turned-out business entrepreneur of Hong Kong.
■ VERB
become
▪ The majority of the peasantry, however, have neither the resources nor the social advantages necessary to become entrepreneurs.
▪ But, like so many employees, he dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur.
▪ Some of them were likely to become entrepreneurs and to start taking risks.
▪ And how might Fred compare his situation to that of his laid-off col-league, who became a free-lance entrepreneur?
▪ Many bureaucrats have themselves become entrepreneurs, if not directly, then through family and cronies.
▪ Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur.
▪ Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
▪ The freedom to become an entrepreneur or choose our occupation is a freedom of immeasurable value.
talk
▪ An entrepreneur we talked with launched a successful international consulting firm.
▪ Perhaps you are more organized and more disciplined than most of the entrepreneurs we have talked to.
▪ One entrepreneur we talked to got in trouble just this way.
▪ Martin Braid, a successful entrepreneur we talked to, is a soft-ware consultant much in demand.
▪ One entrepreneur we talked to almost made a terrible mistake.
▪ In fact, this is exactly what an entrepreneur we talked to faced.
▪ An entrepreneur we talked to illustrates the crucial importance of doing something you really love.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A few months ago a young property entrepreneur bought a vacant house, redecorated it and sold it for twice the original value.
▪ The Bay Area is full of entrepreneurs hoping to make money on the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being an entrepreneur is a way of fulfilling your creative potential.
▪ But what of the relationship between the professional and the entrepreneur?
▪ If the business is a goer, the entrepreneur moves on to the full Enterprise Allowance system and gets back any surplus funds.
▪ In the very early stages of the evolution of a business concern, the entrepreneur is not much concerned with security.
▪ Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was.
▪ The cost payment for these contributions by the entrepreneur is called a normal profit.
▪ They are the names of microcomputers produced by a new breed of electronics entrepreneurs.
▪ While there are some good lawyers, many entrepreneurs find it hard to work with one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrepreneur

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 risks are taken.
--F. A. Walker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entrepreneur

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 entreprenour) but did not stay. Meaning "business manager" is from 1852. Related: Entrepreneurship.

Wiktionary
entrepreneur

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 and takes on risk by starting his own venture, service etc

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WordNet
entrepreneur

n. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it [syn: enterpriser]

Wikipedia
Entrepreneur (magazine)

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, California. The magazine publishes 12 issues annually, available through subscription and on newsstands. It is published under license internationally in Mexico, Russia, India, Hungary, the Philippines and South Africa and others. Its editor-in-chief is Amy Cosper and its owner is Peter Shea.

Entrepreneur (horse)

Entrepreneur (foaled 4 March 1994) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from August 1996 to September 1997 he ran six times and won three races. After winning two of his three races in 1996 he won the 2000 Guineas on his first start as a three-year-old. Entrepreneur then started the shortest-priced Epsom Derby favourite for fifty years, but finished fourth. After another disappointing run in autumn he was retired to stud.

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.