rakahinonga
1. (modifier) entrepreneurial.
Nō te tekau tau atu i 1840, anō nei te poaka me te rīwai he moni ki te Māori. Nō konei ka kitea te wairua rakahinonga a te Māori i tā rātou hoko i ngā kaipuke kawe i ngā kai me ngā rawa ki Poihākena (Te Ara 2013). / By the 1840s, Māori were using pigs and potatoes as currency. Māori entrepreneurial flair saw them buying ships plying carrying produce and goods to Sydney.
2. (noun) entrepreneur.
I tipu ake he rakahinonga hou – ngā kaihanga kiriata, ngā kaihanga pūmanawa rorohiko, ngā kaikōpiro waipiro, ngā kaitunu kai me ngā kaihoahoa kākahu (Te Ara 2012). / A new breed of Māori entrepreneur developed – film makers, computer software developers, brewers, chefs and clothes designers.
