entrepreneur
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1. A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
They have to be young, successful entrepreneurs.
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2. A promoter in the entertainment industry.
the music entrepreneur pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written
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1. Mid 18th century (denoting a person who undertakes a project): from French, from entreprendre ‘undertake’ (see enterprise).

