entrepreneurialism
entrepreneurialism noun: the spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
Noun
entrepreneurialism (countable and uncountable, plural entrepreneurialisms)
- The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
- The mixed-economy university in Europe seems better suited to stimulating entrepreneurialism that is linked to creativity and innovation than purely privately financed institutions.2008, Michael Shattock, editor, Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 204
- However, the mainstream pro-capitalist position, especially as flat-out climate-change denialism becomes less common in the ruling class, is that the invisible hand and mighty forces of ‘entrepreneurialism’ will definitely lead to the ‘fixing’ of the problem.2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
Forms of entrepreneurialism
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Origin of entrepreneurialism
From entrepreneurial + -ism.
Questions about entrepreneurialism
- What does entrepreneurialism mean?
- Entrepreneurialism means the spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
- What part of speech is entrepreneurialism?
- Entrepreneurialism is a noun.
- What is the plural of entrepreneurialism?
- The plural of entrepreneurialism is entrepreneurialisms.
Words near entrepreneurialism in the dictionary
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