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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it [syn: entrepreneur, enterpriser]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Old French, from entreprendre to undertake — more at enterprise Date: 1852 one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise • entrepreneurial adjective • entrepreneurialism noun • entrepreneurially adverb • entrepreneurship noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who undertakes an enterprise or business, with the chance of profit or loss. 2 a contractor acting as an intermediary. 3 the person in effective control of a commercial undertaking. Derivatives: entrepreneurial adj. entrepreneurialism n. (also entrepreneurism). entrepreneurially adv. entrepreneurship n. Etymology: F f. entreprendre undertake: see ENTERPRISE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Entrepreneur En`tre*pre*neur", n. [F. See Enterprise.] (Polit. Econ.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. --F. A. Walker.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(entrepreneurs) An entrepreneur is a person who sets up businesses and business deals. (BUSINESS) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

a, administrator, architect, backer, banker, baron, big boss, big businessman, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, contractor, contriver, designer, developer, deviser, director, enterpriser, financier, framer, impresario, industrialist, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, king, little businessman, magnate, man of commerce, manager, mediator, middleman, organizer, planner, producer, projector, promoter, strategian, strategist, tactician, top executive, tycoon, undertaker