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Entrepreneur

Definition: Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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 "entrepreneur" was first used: 1828. (references)

Etymology: Entrepreneur \En`tre*pre*neur"\, noun. [French expression See Enterprise.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Entrepreneur

DomainDefinitions

Economics

A person who directs a company and takes commercial risks. Source: European Union. (references)

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: Entrepreneur

Synonym: enterpriser (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Entrepreneur

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

The Drama

Producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Entrepreneur

English words defined with "entrepreneur": Bill GatesentrepreneurialGatesWilliam Henry Gates. (references)
Specialty definitions using "entrepreneur": amortization periodlaadunvalvontaquality assurance representativereimbursement period, repayment period. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Entrepreneur" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (builder, contractor, entrepreneur, undertaker).

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Modern Usage: Entrepreneur

DomainUsage

Screenplays

That is the smell of my little entrepreneur. (That '80s Show; writing credit: Irit Boger)

Since we must give medals to mass murderers, why not give justice to the small entrepreneur. (The Night of the Generals; writing credit: Paul Dehn)

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

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Commercial Usage: Entrepreneur

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mary Kay You Can Have It All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Image Slideshow: Entrepreneur

Computer Images:
Entrepreneur

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Photo Album: Entrepreneur

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Amos Kendall - the 4th Auditor under Andrew Jackson Adversary of Ferdinand Hassler Telegraph entrepreneur in later career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Entrepreneur

AuthorQuotation

Peter F. Drucker

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Entrepreneur

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

As in the case of oil, the national government tried to play the role of entrepreneur with the creation of the National Bureau of State Gas (Direccion Nacional de Gas del Estado). (references)

Generally the demand at the consumer household level is for auto lease, at the industrial level for capital assets, machinery and technical equipment, and for an entrepreneur for land, equipment, capital assets. (references)

Economic History

Armenia

An enterprise or an individual entrepreneur is granted the right to start operations only after receiving a state registration certificate. (references)

Kazakhstan

In keeping with internationally accepted practices, registration as an entrepreneur, legal entity, or branch/representation office is required. (references)

Japan

Alternatively, after waiting one year, the entrepreneur can take advantage of an even lower tax rate of only 1- percent of gross transaction proceeds. (references)

Trade

Czech Rep

This award is given to Czech products that are produced by a company or entrepreneur registered in the Czech Republic, with at least 60 percent Czech content in the cost of the final product. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The strike ultimately was called off following an agreement reached between the private entrepreneur and the workers after the Supreme Court intervened. (references)

India

During the year, 7,000 workers at the government-owned Bharat Aluminium Company went on a 67-day strike to protest the sale of the company to a private entrepreneur. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Entrepreneur

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We're here to speak for the American farmer, the entrepreneur, and every worker in industries fighting to modernize and compete.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Entrepreneur

"Entrepreneur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.65% of the time. "Entrepreneur" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.65%28217,376
Noun (proper)0.35%1339,140
                    Total100.00%283N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Entrepreneur

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "entrepreneur": entrepreneur-producer, entrepreneur-producers, entrepreneur-scientist.

Ending with "entrepreneur": producer-entrepreneur.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Entrepreneur

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

entrepreneur

2,581

aux entrepreneur jeunes prix

18

entrepreneur magazine

578

female and entrepreneur

17

economics entrepreneur entrepreneurship

293

entrepreneur mag

17

entrepreneur business

87

grant for entrepreneur

17

young entrepreneur

79

entrepreneur business opportunity

16

woman entrepreneur

71

become an entrepreneur

16

famous entrepreneur

47

business entrepreneur starting

15

entrepreneur source

44

nurse entrepreneur

15

entrepreneur opportunity

39

international business entrepreneur

15

business commerce e entrepreneur hosting services small web

33

grant for woman entrepreneur

15

entrepreneur idea

32

kid entrepreneur

14

teen entrepreneur

32

social entrepreneur

14

black entrepreneur

31

entrepreneur role

13

resource for entrepreneur

31

award entrepreneur young

13

entrepreneur of the year

30

entrepreneur characteristic

13

successful entrepreneur

23

internet entrepreneur

13

entrepreneur on the web

23

becoming an entrepreneur

12

young entrepreneur organization

22

entrepreneur success story

12

entrepreneur ernst year young

21

canadian entrepreneur

12

small business entrepreneur

19

filipino entrepreneur

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Entrepreneur

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

Albanian

  

sipërmarrës (impresario, industrialist, jerry-builder, lumper, undertaker), organizator koncertësh, ndërmarrës (employer). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقاول (contractor, provider, undertaker), ‏متعهد (committed, contractor, cultivated, developer, promoter, provider, steward, undertaker), ‏مبادر (enterprising, originator, promoter), ‏الملتزم (conformist, contractor, copyholder, farmer, hewer). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предприемач (contractor, developer, undertaker), импресарио (impresario), добър търговец, добър организатор. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

企业家. (various references)

   

Czech

  

podnikatel (businessman, contractor, operator, undertaker). (various references)

   

Danish

  

driftsherre (enterpriser). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ondernemer (enterpriser). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیش قدم درتاسیس , مقدم کمپانی , موسس شرکت , کارگشا. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

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

   

French

  

entrepreneur (enterpriser). (various references)

   

German

  

unternehmer (businessman, contractor, employer, enterpriser, industrialist, mercantilist, operator, trader). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εργολάβος (contractor, enterpriser). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יזם (initiator). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vállalkozó (builder, contractor, go-ahead), színházi vállalkozó, impresszárió (impresario). (various references)

   

Italian

  

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

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

事業主 , 企業家 (industrialist). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きぎょうか (commercialization, industrialist, textile industrialist), じぎょうぬし. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

기업가. (various references)

   

Manx

  

greeseyder dellalys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entrepreneuray

   

Portuguese

  

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

   

Romanian

  

impresar (impresario, manager, match maker), antreprenor (contractor, employer, enterpriser, undertaker). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предприниматель (employer, industrialist, keeper, profit taker, profit takers, taker, undertaker, venturer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preduzetnik (contractor, promoter). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

empresario (businessman, capitalist, contractor, employer, enterpriser, fabricator, holder, impresario, manager, promoter, showman). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

företagare (businessman, enterpriser). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

eğlence düzenleyicisi, müteahhit (builder, building contractor, contractor, purveyor), girişimci (enterprising, entrant, entrepreneurial, go ahead, promoter). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

антрепренер (promoter), підпри"мець (boss, undertaker). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người phụ trách hãng buôn người thầu khoán. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Entrepreneur

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

entreprendre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Entrepreneur

Derivations

Words beginning with "entrepreneur": entrepreneurial, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurialisms, entrepreneurially, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurships. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Entrepreneur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enrepreneur, entrepeneur, entrepenur, entrepreaneur, entrepreuner, entrepreuneur, entrpreneur. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Entrepreneur"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "entrepreneur" (pronounced Ä'ntrupruner" or Ä'ntruprunuh"r)
4-u n uh" rmanure.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Entrepreneur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-n-n-p-r-r-r-t-u"

-3 letters: prereturn.

-4 letters: repenter, returnee, returner.

-5 letters: enterer, pentene, preener, preteen, reenter, terpene, terreen, terrene.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-n-n-p-r-r-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: entrepreneurs.

 

+3 letters: entrepreneurial.

 

+4 letters: entrepreneurship, underrepresented.

 

+5 letters: entrepreneurially, entrepreneurships.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Entrepreneur


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

45 6E 74 72 65 70 72 65 6E 65 75 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 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#101 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0072 0065 0070 0072 0065 006E 0065 0075 0072

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

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

398086847182847180718784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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