Businesspeople and business leaders

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

A businessman, businesswoman or businessperson is someone who works in their own business or as a manager in an organization.

Note: The plural of businesspersion is businesspeople. Businessperson and businesspeople can also be spelled as two words: business person, business people

An entrepreneur is someone who starts or founds or establishes their own company. Someone who starts a company is its founder. An entrepreneur may found a series of companies or start-ups. Entrepreneurial is used in positive way to describe the risk-taking people who do this, and their activities. Some companies entrepreneurs leaves the companies they found, perhaps going on to the found more companies. Others may stay to develop and grow their business.

Note: Found is a regular verb. Past tence and Past principle: founded. Establishment can also describe an action (e.g. the establishment of a successful business was his main aim in life)

! Some English speakers believe it is not correct to use grow as a transitive verb in this context.

Words

businessman/businesswoman/businessperson

someone who runs their own company, business or a organization

[plural] businesspeople

entrepreneur /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː $ ˌɑːntrəprəˈnɜːr/ ★☆☆ n.

[countable] someone who starts a new business or arranges business deals in order to make money, often in a way that involves financial resks.

He is one of famous entrepreneurs in the AI industry.

entrepreneurial adj.

entrepreneurial is used in positive way to describe the risk-taking people who do this, and their activities

He always feel all the system existed are unresonable, and he realize he is entreprenurial.

start-up n.

[countable] a new small company or business, especially one whose work involves computers or the Internet

Attics Lab is one of start-ups.

establish /ɪˈstæblɪʃ/ ★★★ S2 W1 vt. SYN found

to start a company, organization, system, etcc that is intended to exist or continue for a long time

The city of Boerne was established by German settlers in the 1840s.

establishment /ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt/ ★★☆ W3 n.

[countable]formal an organizatioin or institution, especially a business, shop etc

a first-class training establishment

Leaders and leadership

A large company mainly owned by one person or family is a business empire. Successful businesspeople, especially heads of large organizations, are business leaders or, in journalistic terms, captain of industry.

There is alot of discussion about whether people like this are born with leadership skills, or whether such skills can be learned.

Words

empire /ˈempaɪə $ -paɪr/ ★★☆ W3 n.

[countable] a group of organizations controlled by one person

a business empire

[countable] a group of countries that are all controlled by one ruler or government

the Roman empire

Magnates, moguls and tycoons

People in charge of big business empires may be referred to, especially by jouralists, as magnates, moguls or tycoons. These words often occur in combinations such as these:

collocations with magnate
media press shipping oil	magnate

collocations with mogul
movie media shipping	mogul

collocations with tycoon
property software	tycoon

Words

property /ˈprɒpəti $ ˈprɑːpər-/ ★★★ S2 W1 n.

[countable, uncountable] a building, a piece of land, or both together

Property prices have shot up recently.

[uncountable] the thing or things that someone owns

The hotel is not responsible for any loss or damage to guests’ personal property.

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