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The company must move from being an entrepreneurial startup to a more mature and steadily growing business.
Lower taxes appeal to a new generation of college-educated and entrepreneurial business owners.
Many hi-tech firms are run by entrepreneurial people rather than professional corporate managers.
Policymakers want to reinforce the entrepreneurial climate.

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entrepreneurial | Business English

entrepreneurial
adjective
uk /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜːriəl/ us /ˌɑːntrəprəˈnɝːi-/
used to describe someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks:
Students use their entrepreneurial skills to present a business plan.
The successful candidate will be an entrepreneurial, goal-oriented problem solver.

Examples of entrepreneurial

entrepreneurial
When machine and organizational systems became the tools of dominion, a curious recoding of the entrepreneurial "man of force" ideal took shape.
Aside from farming, their entrepreneurial activities were concentrated in small-scale industrial enterprises.
Political savvy thus emerged as an additional, key entrepreneurial skill which frequently assisted business success in the post-colonial state.
The efforts of deputies to consult the population are noted and appreciated, and the reputations of entrepreneurial deputies spread outside their constituencies.
Resorting to national mentality has possibly been the most common practice adopted: a business class lacking entrepreneurial spirit, or insuf®ciently motivated by pro®ts.
In any case, this evidence suggests that entrepreneurial acumen is a necessary but insufficient basis for sustained development in a capitalist economy.
Another small class has much the same household income, but receives this from entrepreneurial activity or wealth ; this is labelled the petty trading class.
For entrepreneurial households, business wealth constitutes a relevant fraction of their total net worth.
A new citizenship is developing, demanding that individuals be more entrepreneurial in their pursuit of access to welfare.
Entrepreneurial drive alone was, however, insufficient to revitalise ruined cities.
In the data, entrepreneurial incomes also decline for both participants and nonparticipants for the first decade.
This problem, essential to the study of the entrepreneurial class, demands an investigation complementary to that which we undertake here.
Sole reliance on fee income meant that all homes had to be run on entrepreneurial lines.
Entrepreneurial drive and references to ' being driven' were coded with the sports metaphor code.
In this study, we explore the extent to which the presence of entrepreneurial tradition in the family influences succession.
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