entrepreneur

Definitions

1. A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
2. A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
3. A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
   archaic
4. A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario
5. A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
   figuratively, rare, sometimes
6. A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between
7. A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.
   obsolete
8. A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent

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Examples

“Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect⟳ with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect⟳ with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread⟳ outwards.”

“Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take⟳ on the cosmopolitan cast⟳ of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.”

CEFR level