0 an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will earn money:
Don't forget this is a commercial enterprise - we're here to make money.
Those were the years of private enterprise (= businesses being run privately, rather than by the government), when lots of small businesses were started.
1 eagerness to do something new and clever, despite any risks:
2 an organization, esp. a business, or a difficult and important plan, esp. one that will earn money:
3 an organization, a company, or a business:
a manufacturing/catering/farming enterprise
a state/state-owned/multinational enterprise
He was responsible for building the pizza company into a billion-dollar enterprise.
enterprise development/management The grants are intended to support local small enterprise development.
4 a business plan or project, especially one that is difficult or that may fail or lose money:
a business/commercial/economic enterprise What we always look for in a future business partner is a commitment to the business enterprise and its success.
a successful/joint enterprise
5 business activity in general:
boost/encourage/promote enterprise The government unveiled a wide range of measures to boost business and enterprise yesterday.
The enterprise and development committee supports innovation in business.
6 the quality or activity of thinking of new ideas and activities in business and making them successful despite the risks involved:
The prime minister applauded the innovation of private entrepreneurs and said he would like to see similar enterprise in the public sector, too.
The scheme rewards young people who show initiative and enterprise.
a state-owned enterprise
This is an unusual act of collaboration between a museum and a commercial enterprise.
The spirit of competition and free enterprise is alive and well here in Dixie.
It is a government-sponsored enterprise.
Because the organization is a charitable enterprise it is free from tax worldwide.
The remaining fourteen had moved into private enterprise, mostly with firms specializing in the field of their former ministries.
This affinity to the methods of the natural sciences reduces social science to a technical enterprise which has no necessary value implications.
He took up the cause of private enterprise and complained of excessive taxes and government interference.
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