Definition of "enterpriser" [en•ter•pri•ser]

• An entrepreneur; a person who undertakes an enterprise. (noun)

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• "I'm a businessman and a free enterpriser from a long way back."
• "Before embarking on any investment or line of production, the entrepreneur, or "enterpriser," must estimate present and future costs and future revenues and therefore estimate whether and how much profits he will earn from the investment."
• "When that happens, Keynes cautioned, "enterprise will fade and die," and where "effective demand is deficient not only is the public scandal of wasted resources intolerable, but the individual enterpriser who seeks to bring these resources into action is operating with the odds loaded against him.""