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Then there’s all the corporate crime, and the impunity with which empresarios once hailed as skilled victors in the meritocracy are allowed to cheat and steal.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2019

Other empresarios won generous land grants and followed them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

To increase the non-Native population in Texas, provide a buffer zone between its tribes and the rest of Mexico, and provide a bulwark against potential American expansion, Spain began to recruit empresarios.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

A number of men, headed by Stephen Austin, had come into Texas, bringing with them hundreds of settlers to occupy grants given to these leaders, who were known as empresarios, or contractors.

From For the Liberty of Texas by Meynelle, Louis