entrepeneur

Noun

entrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs)

1. A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
   • Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62
2. (archaic) A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
3. (figuratively, rare, sometimes) A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
   • Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.1938, Federal Writers' Project, “Market Place for Words”, in New York Panorama: A Comprehensive View of the Metropolis …, New York: Random House, page 172
4. (obsolete) A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.