noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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individual
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Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was.
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A definition of success can be as different as every individual entrepreneur .
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Although its enormous diamond deposits have always attracted some interest, this has been limited to private companies and individual entrepreneurs .
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Institutions, individual entrepreneurs , and globe-trotting knowledge workers are finally realizing that anytime / anyplace work can work.
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Economic theory assumed that the company, like the individual entrepreneur , behaved as a profit-maximizing unit.
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Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur .
local
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The largely unintentional effect was that small local entrepreneurs had their confidence in the development prospects boosted by this creative strategy.
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Most potential local entrepreneurs are likely to know their area already and be less easily influenced than outsiders by image promotion.
new
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These new entrepreneurs - the bourgeoisie-relied for their accumulated economic wealth on the ownership of machines and factories rather than upon land.
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It is part of the learning proCess of any new entrepreneur .
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A new generation of entrepreneurs will have grown up.
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Yet many new entrepreneurs find it extremely difficult to ask anyone for money.
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It was the wealth of the new entrepreneurs , not that of their workmen, which was everywhere celebrated.
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The new civic entrepreneurs were also learning to be more self-reliant.
private
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Skilled artisans are employed by private entrepreneurs in units mainly of cottage-proportions, widely spread in villages and small towns.
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Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was.
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Traders and other private entrepreneurs also signed up in order to supplement their unregistered incomes.
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As a result private entrepreneurs were driven to combine into monopoly cartels and to reinvest surplus capital abroad.
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Class divisions have reappeared: private entrepreneurs grumble that ungrateful workers have forgotten how bad things were a year ago.
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As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls, they went on strike.
small
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The largely unintentional effect was that small local entrepreneurs had their confidence in the development prospects boosted by this creative strategy.
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This reliance on local initiative and talent has also accelerated the involvement of small entrepreneurs .
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As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls, they went on strike.
successful
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Again, like most successful entrepreneurs , he knows the value of showmanship.
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Most successful entrepreneurs are hard on themselves, in the sense that they are never easily satisfied.
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The plots were essentially the same; like any successful entrepreneur , Alger knew when he was on to a good thing.
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And there are many examples of successful partnerships-entrepreneurs who worked positively together to build a profitable business.
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Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
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Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur .
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In fact, most successful entrepreneurs get used to treating virtually everyone they meet as a possible piece of business.
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Martin Braid, a successful entrepreneur we talked to, is a soft-ware consultant much in demand.
young
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In 1915, Eubie teamed with an ambitious young entrepreneur , Noble Sissle, for vaudeville appearances.
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He advises young entrepreneurs not to worry if their business ideas sound weird, crazy or obscure.
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Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price.
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There is a grasping generation of young entrepreneurs .
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One is the younger breed of entrepreneur looking to get involved in e-business start-ups.
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Livewire offers help by giving free advice to young entrepreneurs .
■ NOUN
business
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Without business entrepreneurs , social entrepreneurs would have no way to pay the bills.
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The compassionate capitalist sees herself as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur at the same time.
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Certainly these bear no resemblance to the insecurity of the fortunes of the business entrepreneur of the competitive model.
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Your attitude and mine will make all the difference in our success as human beings and as business entrepreneurs .
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Geoffrey himself was unrecognisable as the well-turned-out business entrepreneur of Hong Kong.
■ VERB
become
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The majority of the peasantry, however, have neither the resources nor the social advantages necessary to become entrepreneurs .
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But, like so many employees, he dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur .
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Some of them were likely to become entrepreneurs and to start taking risks.
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And how might Fred compare his situation to that of his laid-off col-league, who became a free-lance entrepreneur ?
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Many bureaucrats have themselves become entrepreneurs , if not directly, then through family and cronies.
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Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur .
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Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
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The freedom to become an entrepreneur or choose our occupation is a freedom of immeasurable value.
talk
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An entrepreneur we talked with launched a successful international consulting firm.
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Perhaps you are more organized and more disciplined than most of the entrepreneurs we have talked to.
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One entrepreneur we talked to got in trouble just this way.
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Martin Braid, a successful entrepreneur we talked to, is a soft-ware consultant much in demand.
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One entrepreneur we talked to almost made a terrible mistake.
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In fact, this is exactly what an entrepreneur we talked to faced.
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An entrepreneur we talked to illustrates the crucial importance of doing something you really love.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few months ago a young property entrepreneur bought a vacant house, redecorated it and sold it for twice the original value.
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The Bay Area is full of entrepreneurs hoping to make money on the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being an entrepreneur is a way of fulfilling your creative potential.
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But what of the relationship between the professional and the entrepreneur ?
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If the business is a goer, the entrepreneur moves on to the full Enterprise Allowance system and gets back any surplus funds.
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In the very early stages of the evolution of a business concern, the entrepreneur is not much concerned with security.
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Medical practitioners began as individual private entrepreneurs selling their skills and medical knowledge, such as it was.
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The cost payment for these contributions by the entrepreneur is called a normal profit.
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They are the names of microcomputers produced by a new breed of electronics entrepreneurs.
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While there are some good lawyers, many entrepreneurs find it hard to work with one.