α. see enterprise v. and -er suffix1; also 1500s enterpreyer (transmission error).
β. also Scottish pre-1700 interpryssor.
单词 | enterpriser |
释义 | enterprisern.α. see enterprise v. and -er suffix1; also 1500s enterpreyer (transmission error). β. also Scottish pre-1700 interpryssor. 1. Originally: a person who undertakes or attempts something (chiefly with of, in). Later usually: spec. a person engaged in commercial enterprise; an entrepreneur. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > one who entreprenourc1475 enterpriser1490 undertakerc1540 the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > one who endeavours or attempts assayera1398 enterpriser1490 offerer1581 endeavourer1586 attempter1598 essayer1611 essayist1736 trier1891 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos x. sig. Cviii A grete enterpryser. loued of alle men & preysed of his people. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxiv. 424 A great enterpriser of dedes of armes. 1545 T. Raynalde Womans Bk. D 2 The gud courages of al honest enterpreyers [sic] in those matters & al other. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1466/1 The enterprisers of which martiall feats, wer..Thomas Lord Howard [etc.]. 1630 ‘M. Car’ tr. St. Francis de Sales Treat. Loue of God viii. xii. 500 Disquieted, headie, fierce, enterprisers and sticklers in affaires. 1681 Humble Ess. Peace & Truth Church 17 The Enterprizers of that new Babel. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 80 The Boast of almost every Enterprizer in the Muse's Art. 1764 Public Advertiser 14 July He is a man of genius, a great enterprizer, a great calculator. 1830 R. Chambers Life James I I. iii. 93 An enterpriser in the great and hazardous schemes. 1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 32 These are not simply undertakers, inter-takers, or enterprisers. 1925 Times 21 Sept. 12/5 This right to employ peasant labour is extended..to enterprisers who lease tracts of land. 1963 A. Kuhn Study of Society xxxi. 603 Many are independent enterprisers providing their own labor, land, and capital. 2017 Bemidji (Minnesota) Pioneer (Nexis) 9 Apr. Bakke, known as the enterpriser among the three, sold stock which netted returns. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > self-interested person > specific enterpriserc1600 adventurer1648 fortune-hunter1689 careerist1917 survivalist1922 c1600 D. Moysie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1830) 124 Hercules Steuart..and certaine vtheris wer execute, to the great regrait of the pepill; for this Hercules wes ane simple gentleman, and not ane interpryser. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) I. xix. 125 The attempts of Enterprisers and Fortune-seekers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1490 |
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