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
Noun
  • 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
  • Under the market structure traders have become accustomed to, if the market reaches that price, investors may expect that quote to receive protection.
    — Adam Cohn, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In many ways, the stock market has managed to avoid a true capitulation thus far thanks to a buy-the-dip mentality that has kept retail traders circulating their cash through the different parts of the market without ever leaving.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of trader
Noun
  • Only 35 people attended, but a buyer from Barneys New York was there, and that was enough.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Fourteen months later, the buyer returned for a neighboring property, paying another $86 million to Ralph and Shelly Stayer, minority owners of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball franchise.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of buyer

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