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ENTERPRISER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
Synonyms:
enterpriser; entrepreneur
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("enterpriser" is a kind of...):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
Instance hyponyms:
Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates (United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955))
Clive Sinclair; Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940))
Derivation:
enterprise (a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness))
enterprise (readiness to embark on bold new ventures)
enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)
