Enterpriser

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).

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[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).]

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enter·priser n.

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Noun

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enterpriser - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it entrepreneur bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise