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entrepreneurialism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English entrepreneurial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English entrepreneurialism From entrepreneurial + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
   • However, the mainstream pro-capitalist position, especially as flat-out climate-change denialism becomes less common in the ruling class, is that the invisible hand and mighty forces of ‘entrepreneurialism’ will definitely lead to the ‘fixing’ of the problem. 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
   • The mixed-economy university in Europe seems better suited to stimulating entrepreneurialism that is linked to creativity and innovation than purely privately financed institutions. 2008, Michael Shattock, editor, Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 204:

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