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English borrowed impresario directly from Italian, whose noun impresa means "undertaking." A close relative is the English word emprise ("an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise"), which, like impresario, traces back to the Latin verb prehendere, meaning "to seize." (That verb is also the source of apprehend, comprehend, and prehensile.) English speakers were impressed enough with impresario to borrow it in the 1700s, at first using it, as the Italians did, especially of opera company managers. It should be noted that, despite their apparent similarities, impress and impresario are not related. Impress is a descendant of the Latin pressare, a form of the verb premere, which means "to press."
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Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
The multifaceted impresario then shifted his response to the 2024 Presidential Election, that has angered many Black and Brown business owners, due to Donald Trump’s second term win.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 Nov. 2024
Netflix's new documentary Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, directed by true-crime impresario Joe Berlinger, offers a different look at the decades-old crime, humanizing JonBenét's family members who were accused of being complicit in her death.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Case in point, Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire impresario of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, just hosted a 200-person housewarming party at his $27 million mansion in Newport.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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“Impresario.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impresario. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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