venturer

See also: Venturer

English

Etymology

venture +‎ -er

Noun

venturer (plural venturers)

1. One who ventures; a traveller or explorer.
   • 2002, H. Paul Jeffers, Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer, →ISBN, page 60:

     Pleased to be a solitary venturer, he spent the next three weeks on an odyssey in search of these delights.

   • 2005, Donald Beecher, “Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic”, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 36, number 4, →JSTOR, page 998:

     Tellingly, after demonstrating his virility as a venturer to India, where he made his fortune, he married upon his return.

   • 2012, Duncan Clarke, Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny. How the Past Is Shaping Africa’s Economic Evolution, →ISBN, page 67:

     Some of the earliest venturers into Africa before colonisation were missionaries, who spread into Southern and Eastern Africa as well as other regions.

2. (business) One who undertakes a business venture.

Derived terms

• merchant venturer
• Venturer Scout