entrepreneur
noun
a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
entrepreneurs
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pluralof entrepreneur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Barnum-like qualities of certain larger-than-life entrepreneurs, you know, and you see that a lot in Silicon Valley .
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the 1990s, he set up a venture-capital firm focused on entrepreneurs in India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
That’s a familiar argument among technology entrepreneurs in almost every category — that what they’re doing is so danged important for the world that government should back off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
"If you offered most entrepreneurs a choice between a grant, with significant paperwork, milestone payments and continuous scrutiny, or a paying customer, I suspect they would always choose the customer," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Professors could only envy the millions pocketed by radio entrepreneurs from the discoveries of those pioneers of electromagnetism Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, who had claimed no patents and earned nothing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
