entrepreneurial
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Willing to take risks in order to make a profit: Describes a person, attitude, or behavior characterized by a readiness to undertake new ventures and financial risks for potential gain.
- Of or relating to an entrepreneur: Pertaining to the qualities, activities, or spirit of a person who organizes and manages a business, taking on financial risks to do so.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- She has a very entrepreneurial spirit and started her first company at age 19.
- The government is trying to foster an entrepreneurial culture to boost the economy.
- His entrepreneurial skills were evident in how he identified and capitalized on the market gap.
Advanced Usage
- "entrepreneurial mindset": A way of thinking that embraces innovation, opportunity-seeking, and calculated risk-taking.
- Success in this field requires more than capital; it demands an entrepreneurial mindset.
- "entrepreneurial venture": A business undertaking that involves significant initiative and risk.
- They invested their savings into a new entrepreneurial venture.
Variants and Related Words
- Entrepreneur (n): A person who organizes and operates a business, taking on greater than normal financial risks to do so.
- The entrepreneur pitched her idea to potential investors.
- Entrepreneurship (n): The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
- The university offers a course on entrepreneurship.
Synonyms
- Enterprising: Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
- Innovative: Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
- Go-getting: Energetically and ambitiously eager to succeed.
Antonyms
- Unenterprising: Not having or showing initiative or entrepreneurial spirit.
- Risk-averse: Unwilling to take risks.
- Bureaucratic: Overly concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of efficiency and innovation.
Related Phrases
- "entrepreneurial spirit": The attitude and approach of an entrepreneur, characterized by innovation, risk-taking, and drive.
- The company was founded on an entrepreneurial spirit that it strives to maintain.
- "entrepreneurial ecosystem": The interconnected network of institutions, people, and processes that supports entrepreneurship in a region.
- A strong entrepreneurial ecosystem includes access to funding, mentors, and talent.
Adjective
- willing to take risks in order to make a profit
- of or relating to an entrepreneur
- entrepreneurial risks