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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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Noun1.private enterpriseprivate 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
Translations
Spanish private enterprise nla empresa privada
French private enterprise nentreprise privée
German private enterprise private nPrivatunternehmen nt
Italian private enterprise niniziativa privata

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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.
 
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