entrepreneurial
- adjective
- /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜrɪəl/
- In contrast, digital media publishing success stories tend to follow a more capitalistic entrepreneurial pattern.
- entrepreneurial activity
- entrepreneurial spirit
- entrepreneurial-minded
There's such a desire for people to make the entrepreneurial path more sacred.
- There's such a desire for people to make the entrepreneurial path more sacred.
- So you've done a lot in the entrepreneurial world right now.
- What's the next entrepreneurial venture for Gunplay?
- And that, in a way, was the spark behind my entrepreneurial experiments.
- The rawness to the entrepreneurial spirit is intoxicating for me.
- Do you believe that anyone can be entrepreneurial and make a successful business?
- I wanted to keep meeting so many different entrepreneurial CEOs of companies.
- Now he's timed out now, but they had an entrepreneurial governor called Nathan Deal.
- So it is a completely wild and entrepreneurial frontier.
- So let's start kind of with your entrepreneurial trajectory.
- So there's my entrepreneurial optimism for you and I.
- This could be the start of your entrepreneurial journey.
- It was, I was kind of entrepreneurial about this.
- Back then, that industrial entrepreneurial class was capturing all of the gains.
Examples
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Maggie has always been an entrepreneurial spirit, starting her own businesses from a young age.
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But we also have the most flexible, dynamic, entrepreneurial society the world has ever seen.
Academic text (2011) -
Do you believe that anyone can be entrepreneurial and make a successful business?
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Every new business, however, provides an entrepreneurial test of a new idea.
Academic text (1991) -
America has the most talented, productive... and entrepreneurial workers in the world.
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Third thing, do something entrepreneurial while you're young.
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Maggie, you are an accomplished, intelligent, entrepreneurial woman.
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Carmen joined her and listened as Spice told her about her latest entrepreneurial adventure.
Fiction book (1998) -
Applied IT Innovation employed Agile Development methods to foster entrepreneurial skills.
Academic text (2017) -
I don't think broadcasters get enough credit for how creative and how entrepreneurial they are.
Synonyms
Ready to try new projects and make them succeed
Willing to try new and risky things
Antonyms
How Entrepreneurial
Surface Forms
Morphology
entrepreneurial = entrepreneur (transparent) = entrepreneur + ial
Clear adjective formed from 'entrepreneur' + the productive suffix '-ial', meaning 'relating to or characteristic of an entrepreneur'.
Etymology
Entrepreneurial comes from the French word entrepreneur, which means someone who 'undertakes' a project or business—like the English words undertake and enterprise. So, being entrepreneurial means being ready to start new ventures and take risks.