English > entrepreneur: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it. |
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| Synonym | enterpriser |
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| Instances | Gates, Bill Gates, William Henry Gates | United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955) |
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| Sinclair, Clive Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair | English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940) |
| Broader | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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| Spanish | comerciante, emprendedor comercial, emprendedor, empresario |
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| Catalan | emprenedor, empresari |
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| Adjectives | entrepreneurial | of or relating to an entrepreneur |
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| entrepreneurial | willing to take risks in order to make a profit |