entrepreneur Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

En`tre*pre*neur" noun
Etymology
F. See Enterprise.
Definitions
  1. (Polit. Econ.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

Webster 1913