entrepreneur

entrepreneur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French entrepreneur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/, /ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/[1]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑn.tɹə.prəˈnɝ/, /ˌɑn.tɹə.prəˈnʊɚ/

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Noun

entrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs)

1. A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
   • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:

     Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.

2. A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
3. A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• -preneur
• bioentrepreneur
• ecopreneur
• enterprise
• entrepreneurial
• entrepreneurialism
• entrepreneurially
• entrepreneuring
• entrepreneurship
• homepreneur
• infopreneur
• interprender
• intrapreneur
• microentrepreneur
• momtrepreneur
• mumpreneur
• pastorpreneur
• philanthropreneur
• social entrepreneur
• technopreneur
• teenpreneur
• tenderpreneur
• unorthodox entrepreneur
• wantrepreneur
• webpreneur

Related terms

• entrepreneuse

Translations

person who organizes and operates a business and assumes the associated risk

Albanian: sipërmarrës (sq) m Arabic: مُتَعَهِّد‎ m (mutaʿahhid), مُقَاوِل‎ m (muqāwil), مُلْتَزِم‎ m (multazim), مُنَظِّم‎ m (munaẓẓim) Armenian: ձեռներեց (hy) (jeṙnerecʿ) Azerbaijani: sahibkar (az), iş adamı, biznesmen Bashkir: эшҡыуар (eşqıwar) Belarusian: прадпрыма́льнік m (pradprymálʹnik), прадпрыма́льніца f (pradprymálʹnica) Bengali: বিনিয়োগকারী (biniyogkarī) Bulgarian: предприема́ч (bg) m (predpriemáč), предприема́чка f (predpriemáčka) Catalan: emprenedor m Chinese: Mandarin: 企業家／企业家 (zh) (qǐyèjiā) Czech: podnikatel (cs) m, podnikatelka f Danish: iværksætter (da) c, entreprenør c Dutch: ondernemer (nl) m, entrepreneur (nl) m Esperanto: entreprenisto, aferisto Estonian: ettevõtja (et) Finnish: yrittäjä (fi), liikeyrittäjä French: entrepreneur (fr) m, entrepreneuse (fr) f Georgian: მეწარმე (mec̣arme) German: Unternehmer (de) m, Unternehmerin (de) f, Entrepreneur (de) m Greek: επιχειρηματίας (el) m or f (epicheirimatías) Hebrew: יַזָּם‎ (he) m (yazam) Hindi: व्यवसायी (hi) m (vyavsāyī), उद्यमी (hi) m (udyamī) Hungarian: vállalkozó (hu) Indonesian: wirausaha (id) Irish: fiontraí Italian: imprenditore (it), imprenditrice (it) f Japanese: 企業家 (きぎょうか, kigyōka), 起業家 (きぎょうか, kigyōka), アントレプレナー (antorepurenā), アントルプルヌール (antorupurunūru), 事業家 (じぎょうか, jigyōka) Kazakh: кәсіпкер (käsıpker) Khmer: សហគ្រិន (saʼhaʼkrɨn) Korean: 기업가(企業家) (ko) (gieopga), 기업인(企業人) (ko) (gieobin), 사업가(事業家) (ko) (sa'eopga) Kyrgyz: ишкер (ky) (işker) Lao: ຜູ້ປະກອບການ (phū pa kǭp kān) Latvian: uzņēmējs m Lithuanian: verslininkas m, verslininkė f Macedonian: претприемач m (pretpriemač), претприемачка f (pretpriemačka) Maori: rakahinonga Norwegian: Bokmål: entreprenør (no) m Persian: کارآفرین‎ (kâr-âfarin), صاحب‌کار‎ (sâhebkâr), کارخانه‌دار‎ (kârxâne-dâr) Plautdietsch: Wirtschofta m Polish: przedsiębiorca (pl) m, przedsiębiorczyni (pl) f Portuguese: empreendedor m, empreendedora f Romanian: antreprenor (ro) m, antreprenoare (ro) f Russian: предпринима́тель (ru) m (predprinimátelʹ), предпринима́тельница (ru) f (predprinimátelʹnica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: предузетник m, предузетница f, по̏дузе̄тнӣк m, по̏дузе̄тница f Roman: preduzetnik m, preduzetnica f, pȍduzētnīk (sh) m, pȍduzētnica (sh) f Slovak: podnikateľ m, podnikateľka f Slovene: podjetnik m, podjetnica f Southern Altai: аргачы (argačï) Spanish: emprendedor (es) m, emprendedor comercial m, comerciante (es) m Swahili: mjasiriamali Swedish: entreprenör (sv) c Tagalog: maninikap Tajik: соҳибкор (sohibkor), корхонадор (korxonador) Tatar: эшкуар (tt) (eşkuar) Thai: ผู้ประกอบการ (th) (pûu-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-gaan) Turkish: atılımcı (tr), girişimci (tr), müteşebbis (tr) Turkmen: telekeçi Ukrainian: підприє́мець m (pidpryjémecʹ), підприє́мниця f (pidpryjémnycja) Uzbek: tadbirkor (uz) Vietnamese: chủ doanh nghiệp Welsh: entrepreneur m or f, dyn busnes m

person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur

Catalan: emprenedor m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: podnikatel (cs) m, podnikavec m Finnish: yrittäjä (fi) Greek: εργολάβος (el) m or f (ergolávos) Japanese: 冒険家 (ぼうけんか, bōkenka) Spanish: emprendedor (es) m

person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting his own venture, service etc.

Finnish: yrittäjä (fi)

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Italian: (please verify) imprenditore (it) m Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) poduzetnik (sh) Swedish: (please verify) företagare (sv) c

References

1. The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003

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French

Etymology

From entreprendre +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁə.nœʁ/

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Noun

entrepreneur m (plural entrepreneurs, feminine entrepreneuse)

1. entrepreneur (person who organizes and operates a business venture)

Related terms

• entrepreneuse

Descendants

• → English: entrepreneur
• → Romanian: antreprenor
• → Spanish: emprendedor (calque)

Further reading

• “entrepreneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.