Meaning of entrepreneur in English
(Definition of entrepreneur from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
entrepreneur | Intermediate English
entrepreneur | Business English
someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks:
an internet/e-commerce/dotcom entrepreneur
a property/retail/technology entrepreneur
a wealthy/successful/talented entrepreneur
Examples of entrepreneur
entrepreneur
The world needs more makers, inventors, problem-solvers, and entrepreneurs.
From Huffington Post
The financiers become "political entrepreneurs," pulling strings behind the scenes.
Entrepreneurs have a way of showing up whenever people experience common problems.
From Fast Company
He is extremely passionate about helping / meeting new entrepreneurs and always excited to learn about their unique journey.
From Fast Company
These are what you live for as an entrepreneur.
From Business Insider
They were, perhaps, amongst the first ever entrepreneurs.
From TechCrunch
If most freelancers or entrepreneurs work a 10-12 hour day, many spend next to none of that time really focused on getting new customers.
From Business Insider
So, that's why our younger generation are social entrepreneurs, and they see themselves as benefiting the world.
From Huffington Post
So, why has bettering the world become a mantra for a new generation of entrepreneurs?
From Wired
That is the value of the entrepreneur in today's crazy, mixed-up world.
From USA TODAY
Entrepreneurs can avoid getting burned by this pending fallout of "spray and pray" investors.
From VentureBeat
One of the reasons entrepreneurs are optimistic about the chances of their businesses is because they genuinely love what they do.
From Fast Company
Most entrepreneurs are working on their first company, or perhaps their second or third.
From VentureBeat
The kinds of businesses founded by young entrepreneurs make a much bigger impact when they succeed, and leave a much lighter mark when they fail.
From Fast Company
So how do entrepreneurs figure out who is their right mentor?
From Huffington Post
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Collocations with entrepreneur
entrepreneur
These are words often used in combination with entrepreneur.
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aspiring entrepreneurs
He has consistently urged aspiring entrepreneurs to look for large market opportunities.
female entrepreneurs
Business link operators have been addressing their business plans to how best to support and encourage female entrepreneurs.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
individual entrepreneur
Most existing programmes of micro-enterprise promotion take the individual entrepreneur or firm as the target of action.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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起業家, 起業家（きぎょうか）…
müteşebbis, girişimci…
entrepreneur/-euse [masculine-feminine], entrepreneur/-euse…
emprenedor, -a…
ondernemer…
entreprenør, iværksætter…
företagare, entreprenör…
usahawan…
der Unternehmer…
entreprenør [masculine], gründer [masculine], entreprenør…
підприємець…
предприниматель…
صاحِب مَشروع خاص…
podnikatel, -ka…
wirausaha, wiraswastawan…
ผู้ก่อตั้งกิจการ…
nhà doanh nghiệp…
przedsiębiorca…
사업가…
imprenditore, -trice, imprenditrice…
