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Chapter 1: Entrepre
Vocabulary Terms for Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship and the Economy
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9th Grade
04/20/2016

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Entrepreneur
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A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
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Venture
Definition
A business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation:
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Entreprenuership
Definition
The process of recognising or creating an opportunity, testing it in the market, and gathering the resources nessesary to go into business.
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Economics
Definition
The study of how people choose to allocate scarce resources to fulfill their inlimited wants.
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Free Enterprise System
Definition

People can choose what products to buy

People can choose to own priavate propety

People can choose to start a business and compete with other buisnesses

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Profit
Definition
The money that is kept after all expenses of running a buisness havve been deducted from the income.
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Market Structure
Definition
The nature and degree of competition among businesses oporating in the same industry.
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Monopoly
Definition
A market structure in which a particular comodity has only one seller who has control over supply and can exert nearly total control over prices.
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Oligopoly
Definition
A market structure in which there sre just s few competing firms.
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Goods
Definition
Tangible or phisical products.
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Services
Definition
Intangible products
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Need
Definition
A basic requirements for survival.
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Want
Definition
Something that you do not have to have for survivalbut you would like to.
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Factors of Production
Definition
The resources businesses use to produce the goods and services people want.
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Scarcity
Definition
occours when demanded exeeds supply.
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Demand
Definition
The quantity of goods or services that consumers are willing and able to buy.
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Elastic Demand
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Refers to situations in which a change in price creates a change in demand.
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Inelastic Demand
Definition
Situations in which a change in price has a very little effect on demand for products.
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Diminishing Marginal Utility
Definition
Establishes that price alone does not determine demand.
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Supply
Definition
The amount of good or service that proucers are willing to provide.
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Equilibrium
Definition
The point which consumers buy all of a product that is supplied.
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Gross Domestic Product
Definition
The total market values of goods and services produced by a nation during a given piriod.
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Business Cycle
Definition
The periodic random pattern of expansion and contractionthat the economy goes through.
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Zones
Definition
are specially designated areas d communitythat provide tax benifits to new buisnesses locating there and grants for new product development.
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opportunity
Definition
An idea that has commercial potential.
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Start up recources
Definition
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New Venture Organization
Definition
the foundation that supports all of the products, processes, and services of the new business.
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Business Failure
Definition
a business that has stopped operating with a loss of creditors.
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Discontinuance
Definition
a business that was purposely discontinued by an owner who wanted to start a new one.
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