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ENTREPRENEUR
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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 ("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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