entrepreneur

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː//
United States//ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ//
United States//ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ//
Canada//ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ//
//ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː//

A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.

noun

1
A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
2
archaicA person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
3
figurativeA person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.
4
obsoleteA person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.

Etymology

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

Forms

plural: entrepreneurs

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entrepreneur · A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.

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