Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #6601
entrepreneur
企业家；创业者
A person who sets up and runs a business and accepts the financial risks involved.
- 1.
A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
- 2.
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
组织商业冒险并承担风险的人
组织商业冒险并承担风险的人；企业家；主办人；[经] 承包商
In use
She is a successful entrepreneur who started her own company from scratch.
Many young people dream of becoming entrepreneurs after college.
The entrepreneur identified a gap in the market and developed a new product.
be an entrepreneur
She wants to be an entrepreneur.
她想成为一名企业家。
successful entrepreneur
He is a successful entrepreneur.
他是一位成功的企业家。
entrepreneur in/of something
可用in或of表示领域。
Connections
Collocations
- successful entrepreneur
- 成功的企业家
- She became a successful entrepreneur after launching her own tech startup.她在创办自己的科技初创公司后成为了一名成功的企业家。
- serial entrepreneur
- 连续创业者
- As a serial entrepreneur, he has founded and sold multiple companies.作为一名连续创业者，他创立并出售了多家公司。
- young entrepreneur
- 年轻的企业家
- The young entrepreneur received funding for her innovative idea.这位年轻的企业家为她的创新想法获得了资金。
- tech entrepreneur
- 科技企业家
- Many tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley aim to disrupt traditional industries.硅谷的许多科技企业家都致力于颠覆传统行业。
- social entrepreneur
- 社会企业家
- Social entrepreneurs focus on solving societal problems through business.社会企业家专注于通过商业解决社会问题。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
entrepreneur = enter（进入）+ preneur（pre 提前+ neur 神经），想象企业家提前进入需要敏锐神经的冒险事业。
Context & Register
常用于商业、创业等正式或半正式场合，中性偏正式语域。
Grammar Note
可数名词，复数形式为entrepreneurs
Pronunciation & Spelling
All these words share the spelling '-eur'. With the exception of 'amateur' (which has primary stress on the first syllable), the others (connoisseur, masseur, poseur, voyeur, chauffeur) are true rhymes with 'entrepreneur' as they all have primary stress on the last syllable with the vowel /ɜː/.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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