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Definition of Entrepreneur
1. Noun. Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it.
Generic synonyms: Bourgeois, Businessperson
Specialized synonyms: Bill Gates, Gates, William Henry Gates, Clive Sinclair, Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
Derivative terms: Enterprise, Enterprise, Enterprise, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurial
Definition of Entrepreneur
1. n. One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
Definition of Entrepreneur
1. Noun. A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk. ¹
2. Noun. A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entrepreneur
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrepreneur
Literary usage of Entrepreneur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy by Albert Conser Whitaker (1904)
"Whether entrepreneur's cost is reckoned in terms of wages, interest, and rent;
wages and interest alone; or in terms merely of the prices of all the ..."
2. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"THE entrepreneur There is of course the greatest variety in our complex modern
business world. Examination will show, however, that there is a certain type ..."
3. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"THE entrepreneur AND THE CAPITALIST- The entrepreneur class comprises the ...
The French word "entrepreneur" has very nearly the desired significance; ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Fred Manville Taylor (1921)
"The entrepreneur.—The primary, central factor in production is responsibility-taking;
hence the primary, central agent in production is the person, ..."
5. Value and Distribution: An Historical, Critical, and Constructive Study in by Charles William Macfarlane (1899)
"Walker on the Rent of entrepreneur.—That Walker has shown that the entrepreneur
performs as distinct and important a service as capital or labor will hardly ..."
6. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1908)
"Each entrepreneur bid, whether for entrepreneur capital, or for instrumental
goods reduced to terms of entrepreneur capital, is never accurately a bid to ..."
7. Business Ownership Organization by Archibald Herbert Stockder (1922)
"An individual who has an idea, the necessary capital and the will to become an
entrepreneur needs only to combine these, and to set up his establishment at ..."
8. Introduction to Economics by John Roscoe Turner (1919)
"What are the functions of the entrepreneur ? Is the entrepreneur in a ... Can the
entrepreneur tell how much he can afford to pay for the use of a factor? ..."
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