entrepreneur

noun

Definition of entrepreneurnext
as in businessman
a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money

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Recent Examples of entrepreneur The victims included 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, as well as technology entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife, Helen Sharp, and their two young children, relatives said. — David Fischer, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026 Sure, this may sound kind of boring, but the city in the southern Guangdong province has also just been named as the country's leader in wealthy entrepreneurs and is the beating heart of China's AI and tech industry. — New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026 Reimagined by Pensacola entrepreneurs Rafael Simpson and Graham Guirl, and with interiors by local designer Lauren Bakarian-Simpson of Haus of Hue, the hotel has kept its original three-story layout, complete with retro breeze-block pillars. — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2026 The entrepreneur may plant the original idea, but customers eventually help give that idea value. — Jerry Bobb, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for entrepreneur
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrepreneur
  1. businessman
  2. merchant
  3. trader
  4. buyer
Noun
  • In 1912, a small-town businessman in South Dakota started the Yellowstone Trail Association to pressure counties to build roads that connected everyone.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The late American businessman had been among the Russian painter’s most prominent and dedicated patrons.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of businessman
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  • Sometimes word clouds are big-budget supergraphics realized by design firms like Pentagram, but often they are produced cheaply and quickly by non-designers, or by anonymous Etsy merchants, or in-house at printing and signage companies.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Owners who make their payments, keep clean bank statements and grow deposits can often move from a merchant cash advance to a term loan, then to a line of credit and eventually to bank or SBA financing at a fraction of the cost.
    — Elliot Ashkenazie, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of merchant
Noun
  • Polymarket can, for example, see the number of trades being made, the total value of buys and sells, how much traders are wagering relative to their overall activity, and their total profits and losses.
    — Melissa Lee,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The cost of the drugs there and in the private market limits their use, the philanthropist and former energy trader John Arnold notes.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of trader
Noun
  • An economic model to forecast what a market or a buyer is likely to do, which cannot be faked by a chatbot with a confident tone.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Rosie Wrighting, Labour MP for Kettering and former fashion buyer for Asos, felt the budget was pro-growth.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of buyer

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