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Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Vocab
Vocabulary terms for Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship and the Economy
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11th Grade
04/20/2016

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Term
Entrepreneur
Definition
A person who starts a business and takes on risk.
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Venture
Definition
An attempt by a company to do something that involves risk.
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Entrepreneurship
Definition
A way of thinking like an entrepreneur.
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Economics
Definition
How we deal with unlimited wants from limited resources.
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Free Enterprise
Definition
People direct the economy, private property, and competition.
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Profit
Definition
Income deducted from expenses.
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Market Structure
Definition

The categorization of competition in a specific market. 

Four types:  Perfect Competition, Monopolistic Competition, Monopoly, and Oligopoly.  

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Monopoly
Definition
Complete control of a specific market.
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Oligopoly
Definition
A small group of people hold all power over a specific market.
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Goods
Definition
Products produced that are physical.
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Services
Definition
Non-physical product from a company.
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Need
Definition
You need something to survive.
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Want
Definition
A non-necessity for life.
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Factors of productions
Definition

Labor

Land

Capital

Entrepreneurship

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Scarcity
Definition
When demand exceeds supply, you have scarcity.  Often times you have to make cuts or raise prices.
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Demand
Definition
The quantity of goods and services at which people are willing to buy.
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Elastic Demand
Definition
When a change in price changes demand.
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Inelastic Demand
Definition
When a change in price does not affect demand
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Diminishing Marginal Utility
Definition
Price alone does not determine demand.  People will not always buy an excess of something because it is cheap.
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Supply
Definition
The amount of goods and services sellers will sell
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Equilibrium
Definition
When no shortage or surplus occurs.
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Gross Domestic Product
Definition
Total value of an entire nation's wealth.
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Business Cycle
Definition
The ups and downs of an economy.  When GDP drops 10+%, it is considered a depression, while any severe downturn is a recession before 10%.
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Enterprise zones
Definition
Incentivized areas that seek to gain new business.
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Opportunity
Definition
An idea that has potential to make money.
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Start-Up Resources
Definition
What it takes to start a business.
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New Venture Organization
Definition
Basically the company.
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Business Failure
Definition
When a business runs red and investors/creditors lose money.
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Discontinuance
Definition
When a company re-brands, starts anew, or just doesn't want to be in business anymore.
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