Meanings
plural entrepreneurships
- countableuncountableThe art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34 - countableuncountableThe quality of being an entrepreneur.
Origin
- Englishentrepreneur
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishentrepreneurship
From entrepreneur + -ship.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan emprenedoria
- emprenedoriaquality of being an entrepreneur
Chinese Mandarin 創業 /创业
- 創業 /创业 (chuàngyè)quality of being an entrepreneur
Finnish yrittäjyys
- yrittäjyysquality of being an entrepreneur
French entrepreneuriat
- entrepreneuriatquality of being an entrepreneur
German Unternehmertum
- Unternehmertumquality of being an entrepreneur
Hindi उद्यमिता
- उद्यमिता (udyamitā)quality of being an entrepreneur
Hungarian vállalkozás, vállalkozói tevékenység
- vállalkozásquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozói tevékenységquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozószellemquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozói szellemquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozókedvquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozási kedvquality of being an entrepreneur
- vállalkozási készségquality of being an entrepreneur
Indonesian kewirausahaan
- kewirausahaanquality of being an entrepreneur
Italian imprenditorialità, spirito imprenditoriale
- imprenditorialitàquality of being an entrepreneur
- spirito imprenditorialequality of being an entrepreneur
- imprenditoriaquality of being an entrepreneur
Japanese 起業
- 起業 (kigyō)quality of being an entrepreneur
Malay keusahawanan
- keusahawananquality of being an entrepreneur
Māori rakahinongatanga
- rakahinongatangaquality of being an entrepreneur
Polish przedsiębiorczość
- przedsiębiorczośćquality of being an entrepreneur
Portuguese empreendedorismo
- empreendedorismoquality of being an entrepreneur
Russian предпринима́тельство
- предпринима́тельство (predprinimátelʹstvo)quality of being an entrepreneur
Spanish emprendedorismo, espíritu emprendedor
- emprendedorismoquality of being an entrepreneur
- espíritu emprendedorquality of being an entrepreneur
- espíritu empresarialquality of being an entrepreneur
- empresarialidadquality of being an entrepreneur
Swahili ujasiriamali
- ujasiriamaliquality of being an entrepreneur
Turkish girişimcilik
- girişimcilikquality of being an entrepreneur
Cite this entry
entrepreneurship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrepreneurship
“entrepreneurship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrepreneurship. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entrepreneurship,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrepreneurship.
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