entrepreneurial

entrepreneur | American Dictionary

entrepreneur
noun[ C ]
us/ˌɑn·trə·prəˈnɜr, -ˈnʊər/
a person who attempts to make a profit by starting a company or by operating alone in the business world, esp. when it involves taking risks:
He’s an entrepreneur who made his money in computer software.

entrepreneurial

adjectiveus/ˌɑn·trə·prəˈnɜr·i·əl, -ˈnʊər-/

entrepreneur | Business English

entrepreneur
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜːr/us
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

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The rates of increase in the number of entrepreneurs and government employees in the rural economy are relatively small (5.8% and 5.5%, respectively).
In so acting as norm entrepreneurs in international arenas, indigenous organisations are changing traditional statecentric international politics and its basic institutions to encompass different actors.
The pure recruiting agent was an entrepreneur who arose in response to missing markets for labour for largescale recruitment purposes.
We warmly thank all our questionnaire and interview respondents and the many expatriate and local entrepreneurs and officials who provided invaluable information.
Under the drive system, the entrepreneur gave the foreman the supervisory activities previously undertaken by craft workers, in order to improve production and labour productivity.
In another case in the sewing sector, ten small entrepreneurs who are located in the same vicinity cooperate.
Banks finance entrepreneurs and maximize profits or bank capital accruing to current shareholders.
The remuneration of the wage worker converged with that of the entrepreneur.
In many cases, leveraged buyouts, often structured by the entrepreneur and top managers, were the ultimate customers.
In the end, the ministry was intermittently criticized for enriching minority entrepreneurs and infringing on the privileges of minority vested interest.
But after 1986, the income of nonparticipant entrepreneurs steadily increases, peaking after 1992.
However, my general proposition was that the prosperity of any economic enterprise depends on the collective efforts of its entrepreneurs, managers and workers.
Studies show that many small entrepreneurs have been employed in the formal sector before setting up their own enterprises.
Because of this friction, the amount that an entrepreneur can borrow is a function of his own wealth, which thus acts as collateral.
Under what circumstances might we expect the presence of political entrepreneurs to operate in a normatively desirable manner?
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Collocations withentrepreneur

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aspiring entrepreneurs
He has consistently urged aspiring entrepreneurs to look for large market opportunities.
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