Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who undertakes a large industrial enterprise; a contractor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Polit. Econ.) One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who organizes and operates a business
venture andassumes much of the associated risk. - noun A person who organizes a risky
activity of any kind and actssubstantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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From an etymological point-of-view, the word entrepreneur is based on the Sanskrit word "Antha Prerna," which in translation means "self-motivated."
Gregory Hosono: Entrepreneurship in 500 Words Gregory Hosono 2011
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From an etymological point-of-view, the word entrepreneur is based on the Sanskrit word "Antha Prerna," which in translation means "self-motivated."
Gregory Hosono: Entrepreneurship in 500 Words Gregory Hosono 2011
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The word entrepreneur derives from the French word that refers to the source of the event, the one who initiates.
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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The word entrepreneur derives from the French word that refers to the source of the event, the one who initiates.
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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My understanding is that it was he who invented the term entrepreneur and who coined the phrase in order to explain why the market economy was so successful.
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century 2002
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IPO was a set of initials known to most college graduates, and the word entrepreneur hit the covers of books on the New York Times best-seller list.
HIGH TECH START UP 2000
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IPO was a set of initials known to most college graduates, and the word entrepreneur hit the covers of books on the New York Times best-seller list.
HIGH TECH START UP 2000
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IPO was a set of initials known to most college graduates, and the word entrepreneur hit the covers of books on the New York Times best-seller list.
HIGH TECH START UP 2000
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IPO was a set of initials known to most college graduates, and the word entrepreneur hit the covers of books on the New York Times best-seller list.
HIGH TECH START UP 2000
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Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or service, by carving out a niche in the market that may not exist currently.
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In the context of the sharing economy, the word “entrepreneur” today means an independent contractor—a worker without a minimum wage, benefits, or labor protections who may have gone into debt to buy a vehicle or other equipment.
The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival | JSTOR Daily Catherine Halley 2019
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And we were not abstract algorithms or “conflict entrepreneurs” (another useful phrase from Rose-Stockwell’s book, describing people who create or stoke chaos online in order to boost their own profiles).
Jezebel and the Question of Women’s Anger Condé Nast 2023
keywords commented on the word entrepreneur
nmw is a "word entrepreneur" -- he (Norbert Mayer-Wittmann) works on the development of online language (he refers to his business as "New Media Works").
July 4, 2009