ENTERPRISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enterpriser mean? 

• ENTERPRISER (noun)
  The noun ENTERPRISER has 1 sense:

1. someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

  Familiarity information: ENTERPRISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTERPRISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

enterpriser; entrepreneur

Hypernyms ("enterpriser" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Instance hyponyms:

Bill Gates; Gates; 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))

Clive Sinclair; Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940))

Derivation:

enterprise (a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness))

enterprise (readiness to embark on bold new ventures)

enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)