enterprise

enterprise
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enterprises
1) N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft adj N An enterprise is a company or business, often a small one.

There are plenty of small industrial enterprises.

...the integration of farming enterprises.

2) N-COUNT: usu supp N An enterprise is something new, difficult, or important that you do or try to do.

...the first Director of such a novel enterprise...

Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.

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3) N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N Enterprise is the activity of managing companies and businesses and starting new ones.

He is still involved in voluntary work promoting local enterprise.

...a national program of subsidies to private enterprise.

4) N-UNCOUNT (approval) Enterprise is the ability to think of new and effective things to do, together with an eagerness to do them.

...the spirit of enterprise worthy of a free and industrious people.

...the group's lack of enterprise.


English dictionary. 2008.

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