Businessmen represent and run European supply (13)

I believe the answer is:

entrepreneurs

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'businessmen' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'represent and run european supply' is the wordplay.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'supply' indicates anagramming the letters (in a supple way).
'represent'+'run'+'e'='representrune'
'representrune' with letters rearranged gives 'ENTREPRENEURS'.

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(Another definition for entrepreneurs that I've seen is " Business risk-takers".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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