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Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Vocab
Vocabulary terms for Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship and the Economy
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10th Grade
04/20/2016

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Entreprenuer
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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
an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one.
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Entrepreneurship
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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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Economics
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The science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind.
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Free Enterprise System

Definition
choose what products to buy, own private propertry, and start there own business and compete with other business.
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profit
Definition
pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction.
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market structure
Definition
The nature and degree of competiton against other competitors in the same industry.
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monopoly
Definition
exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.
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oligopoly
Definition
the market condition that exists when there are few sellers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors.
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goods
Definition
objects or items that one wishes to sell
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services
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an act of helpful activity; help; aid
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need
Definition
a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation
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want
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to feel a need or a desire for; wish for
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factors of production
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the resources that businesss use to produce goods and services
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scarcity
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insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth
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demand
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to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right
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elastic demand
Definition
change in price creates a change in demand
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ineleastic demand
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change in price has a very little effect on demand
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diminshing marginal utility
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people will not buy more than they can use
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supply
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the amount of good or service that producers are willing to provide
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equilibrium
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the point that which consumers buy all the 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 time period.
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business cycle
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is the periodic random pattern of expanison and contraction that the economy goes through
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enterprise zones
Definition
specially desingned areas of community that procive tax benefits to new bussiness located there
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opportunity
Definition
an idea that has commercial poetential
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start up resources
Definition
the capital, skilled labor, managment expertise, legal and finnacial advise, facility, equipment, and customer needed to start a bussines.
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new venture organization
Definition
the company is the foundation that supports all of the products, processes, and services of the new bussiness.
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business faliure
Definition
a bussiness that stopped operating with a loss to creditors
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discontinuance
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is a business that was purposely discontinued by an owner who wanted to start a new one; may be operating under another name.
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