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empresario
Definition of empresario
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: one who before Texas became part of the U.S. entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government to settle a certain number of families in Texas in exchange for sizable grants of land
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Origin and Etymology of empresario
Spanish, contractor, manager, probably from Italian impresario
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