enterprise
420
3.8
- noun
- /ˈɛn.tə.praɪz/
:
empresa
- She launched a new enterprise focusing on renewable energy solutions.
- a business enterprise
- a private enterprise
- a commercial enterprise
So before you start a new enterprise and new activity,
- So before you start a new enterprise and new activity,
- So as a global medical enterprise, how do we deal with that?
- We should be investing in, you know, all kinds of rural enterprises that will support this sector.
- They meant the government takes over and runs the enterprise and they said that was socialism.
- They will lease pretty much all of the non agricultural enterprises of the nobles.
- No large enterprise buys a database without talking to Gardner Group first.
Examples
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Private enterprises grew faster than state enterprises in the 1990s and 2000s.
Academic text (2013) -
We loan money to various enterprises here in the States.
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So before you start a new enterprise and new activity,
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But I think that this is a new enterprise that we have to work on.
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I was this close to starting my own little enterprise, man.
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Which one of you gentlemen is funding this enterprise?
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For small and medium sized enterprises, this share is even higher.
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We should be investing in, you know, all kinds of rural enterprises that will support this sector.
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Small enterprises are those with fewer than 50 employees, while medium-sized enterprises have fewer than 250.
Academic text (2011) -
Economic interaction has built bridges of cooperative enterprise across ancient national, racial, and ethnic boundaries.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
4
3.4
A business that sells goods or services to make money
3
3.2
An organization that sells goods or services to make a profit
1
3.2
A company that sells goods or provides services, including its people
Compounds
30
3.8
A system where private businesses compete and the market sets prices with little government control
2
4.7
Supporting a system where private businesses compete with little government control
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6.1
Relating to businesses owned and run by people or companies to make profit, not the state
A business where workers have most or all of the company, often through shares
How Big
112
4.4
∞
3.7
∞
1.0
420
3.8
169
3.6
- Specialized
3
7.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Enterprise comes from an old French verb entreprendre, made of entre- 'between' and prendre 'to take', and the -prise part is the same idea in surprise. So an enterprise is something someone 'takes on', which is why it means a business or company someone starts.