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An entrepreneur is a person who starts and assumes the risk for a business. (noun)

An example of entrepreneur is Bill Gates.

See entrepreneur in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit

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See entrepreneur in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ŏnˌtrə-prə-nûrˈ, -no͝orˈ)

noun

A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

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enˌtre·pre·neurˈi·al adjective

enˌtre·pre·neurˈi·al·ism, enˌtre·pre·neurˈism noun

enˌtre·pre·neurˈshipˌ noun

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