entrepreneurs
- 1Plural of entrepreneur.
Several entrepreneurs joined forces to launch a regional delivery service.
Venture capitalists spent the week meeting entrepreneurs seeking early funding.
Note
Every meaning of the singular carries over into this regular -s plural. In current use it almost always names people who found and run businesses and take on their financial risk. In older writing, though, entrepreneurs could be impresarios who staged concerts and plays or managed a theater, or agents who handled performers. Rarely, and figuratively, the word means middlemen or go-betweens.
entrepreneurs is a form of entrepreneur
entrepreneur, noun: A person who starts a business, and more generally someone who owns and manages a business while taking on its financial risks. Full entry
- Forms
- entrepreneurentrepreneurs plural
- Spelling
- entrepreneur → entrepreneurs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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