entrepreneur
Pluralentrepreneurs
- 1Someone who starts their own business and takes the risk if it loses money.
Like the captain of a ship: they decide where the ship goes, and if something goes wrong, it is their problem.
My aunt is an entrepreneur who opened her own bakery last year.
Many young entrepreneurs start their companies online with very little money.
Similarfounder, businessperson, businesswoman, businessman, industrialist
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- 2A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other shows, or who runs a theater.
The entrepreneur hired singers and dancers for the big show at his theater.
An entrepreneur from the city rented the old hall and put on plays there every summer.
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- 3A person who goes between two sides and helps them deal with each other.
He acted as the entrepreneur between the two families and helped them end their argument.
Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.
1938, Federal Writers' Project, “Market Place for Words”Here, entrepreneur means a go-between or middleman between the two sides.Similarintermediary, go-between, middleman, mediator, broker
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Less common meaning
- 4A person who manages a singer, actor, or other performer and finds work for them.
The singer's entrepreneur found her concerts in three different cities that winter.
His entrepreneur planned every stop on the long tour and handled the money.
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Origin
It comes from the French word entrepreneur, meaning someone who undertakes or manages something.