individual entrepreneur
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindividualandentrepreneur
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individual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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entrepreneur
noun[C]
uk/ˌɒn.trə.prəˈnɜːr/us/ˌɑːn.trə.prəˈnɝː/
someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a ...
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(Definition ofindividualandentrepreneurfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Most existing programmes of micro-enterprise promotion take theindividualentrepreneuror firm as the target of action.
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Conservatives are not ashamed of their ideology of applauding the notion of the ruggedindividualentrepreneurin society.
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It is these very barriers that mean high costs for theindividualentrepreneurand reduce his competitiveness.
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It cannot be left to theindividualentrepreneur.
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We believe that on the whole investment decisions are best left to theindividualentrepreneur.
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Bus and taxi services offer an ideal opportunity for theindividualentrepreneuror small business man.
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But they do yield dividends in terms of hard material facts and rewards, although they cannot be measured in terms of the profit of anyindividualentrepreneur.
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These facilities were provided either by yet more societies and subscriptions or by the efforts of individual entrepreneurs.
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Individual-run units are organised by individual entrepreneurs or private investors using their own funds.
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The organizational ecology framework explicitly acknowledges that individual entrepreneurs play an important role in determining the fortunes of individual organizations.
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Individual entrepreneurs do, nonetheless, benefit from personal networks of friends and family who have been instrumental to the formation and continued success of their enterprise.
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Consequently, instead of privatization, with intergovernmental economic decentralization, property rights were decentralized to local governments rather than to individual enterprises or individual entrepreneurs.
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On the one hand, the theory of density dependence acknowledges the key premise of incentive theory - that individual entrepreneurs and supporters are the prime movers behind interest group formation.
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There was a multitude of public spheres in multifarious forms in a great variety of locations, sponsored by central and local governments as well as by associations and individual entrepreneurs.
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Primarily, they are planted by our companies and individual entrepreneurs, seeing opportunities and moving quickly and effectively to take them.
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I read it as an acknowledgement by the profession that its historic rôle—that of a group of individual entrepreneurs—is over.
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Individuals better understand and often know individual entrepreneurs, and on the whole they make the most successful investments.
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Should not investment be decided by individual entrepreneurs according to their assessment of the profitability of each act of investment?
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They can be tremendous not as a result of what governments do but as a result of how individual entrepreneurs, financiers and banks are motivated to do it.
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Over and above that, we have been told that the railways will be much more efficient if a track authority is responsible for the railways and individual entrepreneurs organise services.
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