entrepreneur

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

4. 4
   noun

   A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.

5. 5
   noun

   A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.

Etymology

Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.