private enterprise

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private enterprise

n.
1. Business activities unregulated by state ownership or control; privately owned business.
2. A privately owned business enterprise, especially one operating under a system of free enterprise or laissez-faire capitalism.
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private enterprise

n
1. (Economics) economic activity undertaken by private individuals or organizations under private ownership. Compare public enterprise
2. (Economics) another name for capitalism
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free′ en′terprise


n.
1. the doctrine that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a competitive market on the basis of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental regulation.
2. the practice of free enterprise.
[1885–90]
free′ en′terpriser, n.
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private enterprise

The area of business that is privately owned and not regulated by state control.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.private enterprise - an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine pricesprivate enterprise - an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices
capitalism, capitalist economy - an economic system based on private ownership of capital
economic system, economy - the system of production and distribution and consumption
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Translations
أعمال حُرَّه
soukromé podnikání
freie WirtschaftPrivatwirtschaft
enterprise privée
magánvállalkozás
frjálst framtak, einkaframtak
iniziativa privata
privat initiativ
súkromné podnikanie
özel girişim
私人企业

private enterprise

nl'iniziativa privata
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private

(ˈpraivət) adjective
1. of, for, or belonging to, one person or group, not to the general public. The headmaster lives in a private apartment in the school; in my private (=personal) opinion; This information is to be kept strictly private; You shouldn't listen to private conversations.
2. having no public or official position or rank. It is your duty as a private citizen to report this matter to the police.
noun
in the army, an ordinary soldier, not an officer.
privacy (ˈprivəsi) , ((American) ˈprai-) noun
the state of being away from other people's sight or interest. in the privacy of your own home.
ˈprivately adverb
private enterprise
the management and financing of industry etc by individual persons or companies and not by the state.
private means
money that does not come from one's work but from investment, inheritance etc.
in private
with no-one else listening or watching; not in public. May I speak to you in private?
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Advancing quietly; old differences settling down, and being fast forgotten; public feeling and private enterprise alike in a sound and wholesome state; nothing of flush or fever in its system, but health and vigour throbbing in its steady pulse: it is full of hope and promise.
Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned him out of school to begin that career of private enterprise we have compactly recorded.
'If one side there is no private enterprise, on our side it will be a private enterprise,' he said.
"The enterprise will manufacture various home appliances such dust cleaners, washing machines and so forth," the minister, noting that it will be a private enterprise.
'The enterprise will manufacture various home appliances such dust cleaners, washing machines and so forth,' the minister, noting that it will be a private enterprise.
1 Sources of private enterprise 6,462.2 6,736.8 6,728.4
In its monthly report on the performance of banks and the economy, the CBE explained that the private enterprise sector has obtained about 60.8% of the total facilities granted by banks to all bodies excluding the government until March 2019.
Mark Wilson makes a convincing case in Destructive Creation that one of the most resounding victories of the war was corporate America's success in convincing the public that private enterprise was alone responsible for the triumph of war-time mobilization.
Whatever improvement in the historical losses has occurred is mostly due to improvement in law and order situation and much less due to performance of the private enterprise.
Manama: The Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Seed Training Centre presented certificates to 154 young, aspiring entrepreneurs in Bahrain.
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