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entrepreneurship

UK/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜːʃɪp/US/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — entrepreneur sits at #8,049mostly written

Entrepreneurship is the art and the risk of building your own business. Teach entrepreneurship, a culture of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship courses.

The risk is the part that separates it from management, since the money at stake is usually the founder's own. Universities now teach entrepreneurship as a subject, which some founders find funny.

Definitions of entrepreneurship

  1. 1nounentrepreneurshipThe art and risk of building your own business.C1

    “The grant scheme was meant to encourage entrepreneurship in the region.”

entrepreneurship is an activity.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle French

    entrepreneur

  2. French

    entrepreneur — one who undertakes or manages

  3. English

    entrepreneur

  4. English, today

    entrepreneurship

From entrepreneur + -ship. 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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entrepreneurship in the wild

  • The school's MBA is ranked first in Europe and third worldwide for entrepreneurship in the QS MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings.

    Imperial Business School

  • Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues.

    Social entrepreneurship

  • In 2010, social entrepreneurship was facilitated by the use of the Internet, particularly social networking and social media websites.

    Social entrepreneurship

  • The process of setting up a formal business, as well as any other unconventional modes of profit creation, are considered to be entrepreneurship.

    Entrepreneurship

  • In this sense, entrepreneurship encompasses the activities of both established firms and startups.

    Entrepreneurship

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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.

Related words

the entrepreneur family

entrepreneur

entrepreneurship — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others