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entrepreneur

UK/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/US/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,049 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: entrepreneurs

An entrepreneur is a person who starts their own company and takes the risk it brings. A young entrepreneur, serial entrepreneur, entrepreneurs and investors.

The risk is the definition — somebody running a company they did not start and do not own is a manager. Most new businesses fail within a few years, which the survivors' stories tend to obscure. The French means one who undertakes.

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Definitions of entrepreneur

  1. 1nounentrepreneurA person who starts their own company and takes the risk.B2+

    “The young entrepreneur borrowed money from her family to open her own bakery.”

entrepreneur is a person.

Also accepted in games: founder

Where it comes from

French entrepreneur means one who undertakes, from entreprendre, to undertake. Enterprise is the same root.

  1. Middle French

    entrepreneur

  2. French

    entrepreneur — one who undertakes or manages

  3. English, today

    entrepreneur

French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre + -eur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Work & Careers

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entrepreneur in the wild

  • Evan Clark Williams is an American internet entrepreneur.

    Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)

  • For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues and increases in stock prices.

    Social entrepreneurship

  • Social entrepreneurs, however, are either non-profits, or they blend for-profit goals with generating a positive "return to society".

    Social entrepreneurship

  • A real estate investor or entrepreneur may participate actively or passively in real estate transactions.

    Real estate investing

  • Thomas Anderson is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe.

    Tom Anderson

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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entrepreneur

entrepreneur — used about once every 3,111 pages · #8,049 · point at the bar for the others