entrepreneur
/ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/UK/ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
entrepreneur noun: a person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
Noun
entrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs)
- 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
- A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
- 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
- A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.
entrepreneur meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
entrepreneur in Hindi
- person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk
- व्यवसायी vyavsāyī, उद्यमी udyamī, कारोबारी kārobārī
- person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur
- उद्यमी udyamī
entrepreneur in Tamil
- தொழில்முனைவோர்
entrepreneur in Marathi
- उद्योजक, उद्योजिका
entrepreneur in Urdu
- person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk
- کَاروبارِی kārobārī
More languagesFewer languages
- entrepreneur in Bengali
- বিনিয়োগকারী biniẏōgkari
- entrepreneur in Malayalam
- സംരംഭകൻ
- entrepreneur in Kannada
- ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯೋದ್ಯಮಿ, ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕ, ದಳ್ಳಾಳಿ, ಮಧ್ಯಸ್ಥಗಾರ
- entrepreneur in Punjabi
- ਉੱਦਮੀ
- entrepreneur in Gujarati
- ઉદ્યોગસાહસિક
- entrepreneur in Odia
- ଉଦ୍ଯ଼ୋଗୀ, ଉଦ୍ଯ଼ୋଗପତି
- entrepreneur in Nepali
- उद्यमी
- entrepreneur in Tagalog
- maninikap
- entrepreneur in Arabic
- رَائِد أَعْمال مُتَعَهِّد rāʔid ʔaʕmāl, مُقَاوِل m مُلْتَزِم muqāwil, مُنَظِّم munaẓẓim
- entrepreneur in Malay
- usahawan
- entrepreneur in Indonesian
- wirausaha
- entrepreneur in Thai
- ผู้ประกอบการ pûu-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-gaan
- entrepreneur in Vietnamese
- chủ doanh nghiệp
- entrepreneur in Myanmar
- စွန့်ဦးတီထွင်သူ cwan.u:tihtwangsu, လုပ်ငန်းရှင် lupngan:hrang
Examples of entrepreneur in a sentence
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, and amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.
- He was a serial entrepreneur, always coming up with a new way to make cash.
Forms of entrepreneur
| plural | entrepreneurs |
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Origin of entrepreneur
Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.
Words formed from entrepreneur
- agripreneur
- artpreneur
- bioentrepreneur
- ecopreneur
- enterprise
- entreporneur
- entreprenerd
- entreprenertia
- entrepreneurial
- entrepreneurial customer
- entrepreneurialism
- entrepreneurially
- entrepreneuring
- entrepreneurism
- entrepreneurship
- fakepreneur
- fantrepreneur
- ganjapreneur
- homepreneur
- infopreneur
- interprender
- intrapreneur
- microentrepreneur
- momtrepreneur
- mumpreneur
- pastorpreneur
- philanthropreneur
- -preneur
- regulatory entrepreneur
- seniorpreneur
- social entrepreneur
- technopreneur
- teenpreneur
- tenderpreneur
- unorthodox entrepreneur
- wantrepreneur
- webpreneur
Words that rhyme with entrepreneur
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- per
- purr
- birr
- bur
- cellular
- concur
- defer
- incur
- infer
- occur
- prefer
- were
- whirr
- aver
- brr
- cur
- deter
- diaperfur
- err
- fir
- myrrh
- aberr
- astir
- bestir
- chauffeur
- chur
- churr
- curmur
- deburr
- farceur
- flurr
- force majeure
- froideur
- grr
- her
- hurr
- inter
- knur
- masseur
- profer
- shirr
- voyeur
- xir
- agripreneur
- artpreneur
- auteur
- Big Sur
- bras d'honneur
Questions about entrepreneur
- What does entrepreneur mean?
- Entrepreneur means a person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
- What is entrepreneur in Hindi?
- Entrepreneur in Hindi is व्यवसायी (vyavsāyī), उद्यमी (udyamī), कारोबारी (kārobārī). See Entrepreneur meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is entrepreneur?
- Entrepreneur is a noun.
- How do you pronounce entrepreneur?
- Entrepreneur is pronounced /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of entrepreneur?
- The plural of entrepreneur is entrepreneurs.
Words near entrepreneur in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: entrepreneur (page history and authors); entrepreneur (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrepreneur (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entrepreneur (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrepreneur (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrepreneur (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entrepreneur (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entrepreneur (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entrepreneur (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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