entrepreneurial.

Involving initiative in creating, organizing or developing a business or other venture, often under uncertainty.

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Words that belong together

• entrepreneurial activity
• entrepreneurial initiative

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Entrepreneurial activity increased where participants could test ideas without committing all their resources.

Her entrepreneurial initiative combined a new service with a workable distribution arrangement.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Relational adjective; compare degree only where the context genuinely concerns the strength of the relevant characteristic. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: moderately common.