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ENTREPRENEUR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

Synonyms:

enterpriser; entrepreneur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("entrepreneur" 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:

entrepreneurial (willing to take risks in order to make a profit)

entrepreneurial (of or relating to an entrepreneur)

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