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語源

Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) +‎ -eur.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
• IPA: /ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

entrepreneur (plural entrepreneurs)

1. A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. [from 1762]
   • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:

     Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.

2. (now rare) A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario. [from 1800]
3. (rare, sometimes figurative) A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
   • 1938, Federal Writers' Project, “Market Place for Words”, in New York Panorama: A Comprehensive View of the Metropolis [...], New York: Random House, page 172:

     Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.

4. (obsolete) A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent. [1851–1887]

派生語

関連する語

• entrepreneuse

参照

• “entrepreneur, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Philip Babcock Gove et al., editors (1961), “entrepreneur”, in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [...], volume I: A to G, Merriam-Webster Inc., →ISBN, page 758; republished Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1993, →ISBN