This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
sitzmark
outro
solipsism
intrapreneur
bathos

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Read it today

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-truh-pruh-NUHR, -NOOR, -NYOOR)

MEANING:

noun: An employee who works as an entrepreneur within an established company, having the freedom to take risks and act independently.

ETYMOLOGY:

A blend of intra- (within) + entrepreneur, from French entreprendre (to undertake), from Latin inter- (between) + prendere (to take). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which also gave us pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, osprey, prison, impregnable, impresa, pernancy, and prise. Earliest documented use: 1978.

USAGE:

“‘Don’t change companies, change the company you’re in,’ advises one social intrapreneur.”
Stefan Stern; How to Build a Better World from Inside Business; Financial Times (London, UK); Apr 24, 2014.

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