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What is the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur?

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1. An entrepreneur is a kind of businessman who starts new businesses and seeks new (and possibly risky) business opportunities.
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3. A businessperson (sometimes businessman, male; or businesswoman, female) is a generic term for someone who is employed at a profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically, someone who is involved in the management (at any level) of a company. The term businessperson almost always refers to someone with a "white collar" occupation. An entrepreneur (a loanword from French) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture, and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who establishes a new entity to offer a new or existing product or service into a new or existing market, whether for a profit or not-for-profit outcome (see entredonneur).
4. An entrepreneur is basically a businessman only. A "businessman" is a wider term. An enterpreneur is a person who is enterprising enough to start a new business or diversify into new verticals in case of existing businesses. However, A businessman will also include people who do not start anything new but carry-on the legacy businesses of their fathers and fore-fathers
5. An entrepreneur is "one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise" (www.m-w.com). The definition of "businessman" is "a man who transacts business; especially : a business executive" (www.m-w.com). Basically, a businessman does not have to be an entrepreneur because he does not necessarily have to organize or manage a business, nor is he required by definition to take on all the risks associated with owning a business. He can simply work for someone else. That someone else assumes the risks of the business or enterprise. An entrepreneur may not start out saying, "I want to be a businessman," but a successful one eventually becomes one. Does that make sense?
6. businessman- A man engaged in business entrepreneur- A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture