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Definition: Entrepreneur |
EntrepreneurNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonym: EntrepreneurSynonym: enterpriser (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entrepreneur |
| English words defined with "entrepreneur": Bill Gates ♦ entrepreneurial ♦ Gates ♦ William Henry Gates. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "entrepreneur": amortization period ♦ laadunvalvonta ♦ quality assurance representative ♦ reimbursement 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're here to speak for the American farmer, the entrepreneur, and every worker in industries fighting to modernize and compete. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.65% | 282 | 17,376 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 283 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 entrincheiramento, empresário (business executive, business person, businessman, enterpriser, entrepreneurial spirit, holder, imprescriptible, manager, operator, undertaker). (various references) impresar (impresario, manager, match maker), antreprenor (contractor, employer, enterpriser, undertaker). (various references) предприниматель (employer, industrialist, keeper, profit taker, profit takers, taker, undertaker, venturer). (various references) preduzetnik (contractor, promoter). (various references) empresario (businessman, capitalist, contractor, employer, enterpriser, fabricator, holder, impresario, manager, promoter, showman). (various references) företagare (businessman, enterpriser). (various references) eğlence düzenleyicisi, müteahhit (builder, building contractor, contractor, purveyor), girişimci (enterprising, entrant, entrepreneurial, go ahead, promoter). (various references) антрепренер (promoter), підпри"мець (boss, undertaker). (various references) người phụ trách hãng buôn người thầu khoán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | entreprendre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "entrepreneur": entrepreneurial, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurialisms, entrepreneurially, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurships. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "entrepreneur" (pronounced Ä'ntrupruner" or Ä'ntruprunuh"r) |
| 4 | -u n uh" r | manure. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 72 65 70 72 65 6E 65 75 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - .-. . .--. .-. . -. . ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t r e p r e n e u r |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398086847182847180718784 |
| 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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