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enterprise

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en·ter·prise  (ntr-prz)
n.
1. An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.
2. A business organization.
3. Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit: Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.
4. Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" Henry David Thoreau.

[Middle English, from Old French entreprise, from past participle of entreprendre, to undertake : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + prendre, to take (from Latin prehendere, prndere; see ghend- in Indo-European roots).]

enter·priser n.

enterprise
Noun
1. a business firm
2. a project or undertaking, esp. one that requires boldness or effort
3. boldness and energy [Old French entreprendre to undertake]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.enterprise - a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"
fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise, racket - an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
forlorn hope - a hopeless or desperate enterprise
project, task, undertaking, labor - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
business activity, commercial activity - activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise
2.enterprise - an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader"
organization, organisation - a group of people who work together
giant - an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant"
collective - members of a cooperative enterprise
business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern - a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
commercial enterprise - an enterprise connected with commerce
3.enterprise - readiness to embark on bold new ventures
drive - the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"

enterprise
noun 1. firm, company, business, concern, operation, organization, establishment, commercial undertaking
Translations
Spanish enterprise [ˈɛntəpraɪz] nempresa (= spirit); iniciativa;
free enterprise → la libre empresa;
private enterprise → la iniciativa privada

French enterprise [ˈɛntəpraɪz] n (= company, undertaking) → entreprise f (= initiative); (esprit m d')initiative f;
free enterprise → libre entreprise;
private enterprise → entreprise privée

German enterprise [ˈɛntəpraɪz] nUnternehmen nt;
(initiative) → Initiative f;
free enterprise → freies Unternehmertum nt;
private enterprise → Privatunternehmertum nt

Italian enterprise [ˈɛntəpraɪz] n (= undertaking, company) → impresa (= spirit); iniziativa

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From those early impressions, the grand enterprise of the great fur companies, and the hazardous errantry of their associates in the wild parts of our vast continent, have always been themes of charmed interest to me; and I have felt anxious to get at the details of their adventurous expeditions among the savage tribes that peopled the depths of the wilderness.
Things stood thus, when an incident took place which increased the interest attached to this great enterprise a hundredfold.
 
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