Definition of Enterprise
1. Noun. A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness). "He had doubts about the whole enterprise"
Specialized synonyms: Fraudulent Scheme, Illegitimate Enterprise, Racket, Forlorn Hope, Business Activity, Commercial Activity
Generic synonyms: Labor, Project, Task, Undertaking
Derivative terms: Endeavor, Endeavour, Enterpriser
2. Noun. An organization created for business ventures. "A growing enterprise must have a bold leader"
Specialized synonyms: Giant, Collective, Business, Business Concern, Business Organisation, Business Organization, Concern, Commercial Enterprise
Derivative terms: Enterpriser
3. Noun. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
Generic synonyms: Drive
Derivative terms: Enterpriser, Enterprising, Go Ahead
Definition of Enterprise
1. n. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
2. v. t. To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
3. v. i. To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
Definition of Enterprise
1. [n -S]
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Literary usage of Enterprise
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1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Chapter 22 The Enterprise Almost $48 million flowed into the Enterprise. It came
from contributions directed to the Enterprise by North from Carl "Spitz" ..."
2. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"(See Chapters xH to xliii; also Appendix C.) Reported the Nevada Legislature for
the Enterprise. First used the name "Mark Twain," February 2. ..."
3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Part-time education is a community enterprise, embracing, ... Every element of
the wage-earning population may enter into this cooperative enterprise. ..."
4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1896)
"To stop this trade the armed brig Enterprise had been ordered there to do duty as a
... She was therefore no match for the Enterprise, and might well have ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Failing a war upon the Rhine, Polignac meditated an enterprise in Algiers, ...
If this Algerian enterprise," wrote Talleyrand, " is an expedient to ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The weather proved favourable to their enterprise. Undei the cover of a thick foe,
... (31) hrst enterprise was against the important place of Boulogne. ..."
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