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Here's what is means to be a mompreneur, and why these five moms are getting so much well-deserved attention.

I’m a mom, and an entrepreneur: a mompreneur (or a momtepreneur, a word I like even better).

But like any good mompreneur, Moya-Jones tweaked the original to give it a must-have touch.

She is the Silver Spring mompreneur who has built a thriving business on a "camouflage the dirt" approach to home decorating.

I’m a mompreneur.

Entrepreneur.com defines a mompreneur as "a female business owner who is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur."

Lessons From A Mompreneur.

A 2011 MSNBC article declared the rise of the mompreneur to be a hot trend in the small business sector.

There is also a Canadian magazine devoted to the topic, The MOMpreneur Magazine.

U.S. News and World Report tries to dispel the myths about the mompreneur movement, including the belief that an innovative product idea will lead to easy money.

Other examples of mompreneur coverage by major news outlets include the nationally syndicated weekly advice column "Ask the Mompreneur" published by The Charlotte Observer website, the city's largest daily publication.

No Slip Charlie(TM) was created by mompreneur Kim Shulman, who realized the need for this type of baby bath safety product after the birth of her son, Charlie (for whom the product is named).

I never encountered this sentiment so strongly until I decided not only to embrace the word mompreneur, but to create a business around it: while developing a different company, I yearned to find other women who were raising companies and children at the same time, just like me.

Feminazi, hasbian and frape are offensive on all sorts of levels, and in an age when most of us are moving away from gender specificity - changing policeman to police officer and fireman to firefighter, substituting gender-neutral they for he - it seems odd to be introducing words like momager, mompreneur and manspreading.