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entrepreneur
(ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː(r), ‖ ɑ̃tr(ə)prənœr)
[Fr.: see entreprenour.]
a. The director or manager of a public musical institution.
b. One who ‘gets up’ entertainments, esp. musical performances.
1828J. Ebers Seven Years King's Theatre iv. 115 The payment of the benefit expenses by the unfortunate entrepreneur. A manager is..an animal whom it is supposed lawful and commendable to bleed at every vein. 1838Actors by Daylight I. 230 On the first landing of the Bayaderes at Bordeaux this active entrepreneur despatched a messenger instanter to that city. 1878Grove Dict. Mus. I. 104 Concerts were started by..a well-known entrepreneur of the day. 1882Musical Times 1 Feb. 108/1 Mr... begs to inform Projectors of Concerts, Secretaries of Institutions, and Entrepreneurs generally.
c. Pol. Econ. One who undertakes an enterprise; one who owns and manages a business; a person who takes the risk of profit or loss.
1852Carlyle Let. 15 Sept. in J. A. Froude Life of Carlyle II. xx. 107 A public set of rooms—Kursaal they call such things, finer than some palaces, all supported by gambling, all built by one French gambling entrepreneur. 1883F. A. Walker Pol. Econ. i. i. 203 The employer, or entrepreneur, receiving profits. Ibid. vi. xi. 432 The state as capitalist is at no small disadvantage; as entrepreneur, that disadvantage is vastly aggravated. 1889R. T. Ely Introd. Pol. Econ. (1891) 170 We have..been obliged to resort to the French language for a word to designate the person who organizes and directs the productive factors, and we call such a one an entrepreneur. 1922F. Lavington Trade Cycle iii. 19 In modern times the entrepreneur assumes many forms. He may be a private business man, a partnership, a joint stock company, a co-operative society, a municipality or similar body. 1930J. M. Keynes Treat. Money I. ix. 124 The individuals who perform entrepreneur functions. Ibid. xi. 159 Entrepreneurs will sometimes begin to act before the price-changes which are the justification of their action have actually occurred. 1959J. Braine Vodi viii. 123 Tom's father looked every inch the successful entrepreneur. 1959Listener 26 Nov. 915/2 Where their predecessors were flanked by engineers and scientists, the new-style entrepreneurs will be buttressed by sales managers and advertising experts.
Hence entrepreˈneurship.
1934in Webster. 1959Economist 14 Feb. 588/1 Entrepreneurship..might be common to all developing economies. 1968Sci. Jrnl. Dec. 79/1 MIT-based entrepreneurship. |