enterpriser

Other forms: enterprisers

Definitions of enterpriser
  1. noun
    someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
    synonyms: entrepreneur
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    examples:
    William Henry Gates
    United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
    Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
    English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
    type of:
    bourgeois, businessperson
    a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
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