venturer

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: venturer

1	n	a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
2	n	a person who enjoys taking risks

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: venturer

Examples:: Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798); Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919); Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986)

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; argonaut
someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure; adventuress
a woman adventurer; cowboy
someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles); daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler
a reckless impetuous irresponsible person; gambler, risk taker
someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement; hotspur
a rash or impetuous person; mercenary, soldier of fortune
a person hired to fight for another country than their own; mountain climber, mountaineer
someone who climbs mountains; plunger, speculator
someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains; alpinist
a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs; hedger
someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss; ninja
a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu; operator
a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets; scalper
someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; tearaway
a reckless and impetuous person; venture capitalist
a speculator who makes money available for innovative projects (especially in high technology)

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