entrepreneur
NounUS[ahn-truh-pruh-nur]/ˌɑntrəprəˈnɝ/4 syllablesalso [ahn-truh-pruh-noor] /ˌɑntrəprəˈnʊr/
Synonyms:
enterpriser
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)entrepreneurs
- someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for itSynonyms: enterpriserType of businessperson, bourgeoisKinds mompreneurExamples Sinclair, Gates
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Translations
Noun person who starts a business
- Spanish
- emprendedor
- French
- entrepreneur
- German
- Unternehmer
- Italian
- imprenditore
- Portuguese
- empreendedor
- Turkish
- girişimci
- Russian
- предпринима́тель predprinimátelʹ
- Arabic
- رَائِد أَعْمَال rāʔid ʔaʕmāl
- Chinese
- 企业家 qǐyèjiā
- Japanese
- 企業家 kigyōka
24 more languages
- Dutch
- ondernemer
- Polish
- przedsiębiorca
- Swedish
- entreprenör
- Greek
- επιχειρηματίας epicheirimatías
- Korean
- 기업가 gieopga
- Indonesian
- wirausaha
- Hungarian
- vállalkozó
- Portuguese (PT)
- empreendedor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 企業家 qǐyèjiā
- Catalan
- emprenedor
- Czech
- podnikatel
- Danish
- iværksætter
- Esperanto
- entreprenisto
- Estonian
- ettevõtja
- Finnish
- yrittäjä
- Georgian
- მეწარმე mec̣arme
- Hebrew
- יַזָּם yazám
- Latvian
- uzņēmējs
- Lithuanian
- verslininkas
- Norwegian
- entreprenør
- Romanian
- antreprenor
- Serbo-Croatian
- poduzetnik
- Slovak
- podnikateľ
- Swahili
- mjasiriamali
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
En′tre·pre·neur′ noun
Origin: 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. Francis Amasa Walker
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC