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Enterpriser

Definition: Enterpriser

Enterpriser

Noun

1. Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "enterpriser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: Enterpriser

DomainDefinitions

Public Administration

A person who takes the initiative in combining land, labour and capital, the three fundamental factors of production, to produce a good or service. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Enterpriser

Synonym: entrepreneur (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Enterpriser

Language Translations for "enterpriser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

driftsherre (entrepreneur). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ondernemer (entrepreneur). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yrittäjä (enterpreneur, entrepreneur, self employed). (various references)

   

French

  

entrepreneur (entrepreneur). (various references)

   

German

  

Unternehmer (businessman, contractor, employer, entrepreneur, industrialist, mercantilist, operator, trader). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εργολάβος (contractor, entrepreneur). (various references)

   

Italian

  

imprenditore (boss, contractor, entrepreneur, manager). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

仕事師 (schemer, workman). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"とし (schemer, workman). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enterpriseray

   

Portuguese

  

empresário (business executive, business person, businessman, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, holder, imprescriptible, manager, operator, undertaker). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

antreprenor (contractor, employer, entrepreneur, undertaker). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

empresario (businessman, capitalist, contractor, employer, entrepreneur, fabricator, holder, impresario, manager, promoter, showman), empresa (business, car dealership, company, concern, employer, employment, enterprise, entrepreneur, firm, gamble, industry, proposition, task, undertaking, venture). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

företagare (businessman, entrepreneur). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người dám l m. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enterpriser

Derivations

Words beginning with "enterpriser": enterprisers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enterpriser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enterprisa, enterprisal, enterprised. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Enterpriser"

Words rhyming with "enterpriser" (pronounced 'En"ter*pri`ser'): Catechiser, Circumciser, Compromiser, Controverser, Criticiser, Exerciser, Exorciser, Kirschwasser, merchandiser, Paraphraser, Recompenser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Enterpriser

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: enterprise, reprinters.

-2 letters: presenter, reentries, repenters, represent, reprinter, reserpine.

-3 letters: enterers, eternise, inserter, pesterer, preeners, prerinse, preteens, pretense, printers, reenters, reinsert, reinters, rentiers, repenter, repiners, reprints, retirees, retirers, ripeners, sprinter, teensier, terpenes, terreens, terrenes, terriers, terrines.

-4 letters: eeriest, enterer, entires, entrees, entries, epeeist, erepsin, eserine, peeries, penster, perries, pestier, preener, present, prester, preteen, printer.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: enterprisers, interpreters, reinterprets.

 

+3 letters: predeterminers, preregistering, preretirements.

 

+5 letters: entrepreneurship, prekindergartens.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Enterpriser


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 74 65 72 70 72 69 73 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0070 0072 0069 0073 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3980867184828475857184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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