enterprise

Examples

• All

• My government will introduce legislation to reform competition law to promote enterprise and fair markets.

• I've always felt Cuba is a land of enterprise.

  Lansky (2021)

• We're getting more money from people paying the top rate of tax because we understand that if you back enterprise, you raise more revenue.

• It's more enterprise, more industry, and more jobs.

  The Candidate (1972)

• A man of great enterprise.

  The Legend of Hercules (2014)

• All you need is a little enterprise and a lot of determination.

  Fiction book (1990)

• By the courage and by the enterprise of the American people, this great nation will prosper.

  Death of a President (2006)

• I admire your enterprise.

  Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)

• At the same time, it emphasized nineteenth-century American ideals of individual enterprise and labor.

  Academic text (2017)

• His willingness to invest time and money in new ideas shows a remarkable spirit of enterprise.

Synonyms

I

initiative

vsenterprise

75 3.5

A willingness to start things without being told

adds bold risk readiness and resourceful follow through beyond simple starting ability

E

entrepreneurship

vsenterprise

40 6.2

The activity of starting and running new businesses, often taking risks to make them work

is broader highlighting readiness for bold risk and resourceful action beyond business

G

go-ahead

vsenterprise

2 4.6

A strong wish to start new projects

focuses more on risk acceptance and resourceful action than simple eagerness

E

entrepreneurialism

vsenterprise

1 7.5

The attitude and actions that support starting new businesses with new ideas and risk

focuses more generally on bold risk readiness and practical drive than business support

V

venturesomeness

vsenterprise

1 8.1

A willingness to take risks and try new things

includes that adventurous risk taking but also stresses practical problem solving

E

enterprisingness

vsenterprise

7.9

Being willing to try and start new or difficult projects

stresses bold risk readiness and practical resourcefulness rather than mere willingness

Compounds

F

free enterprise

38 3.8

A system where private businesses compete and the market sets prices with little government control

P

private enterprise

17 3.9

Businesses owned and run by people or companies, not the government

E

enterprise zone

• Formal

8 4.4

An area where businesses get tax breaks to encourage development

B

business enterprise

7 3.2

An organization that sells goods or services to make a profit

C

commercial enterprise

5 3.4

A business that sells goods or services to make money

F

free-enterprise

2 4.7

Supporting a system where private businesses compete with little government control

I

industrial enterprise

1 3.9

A large business that makes products, often in factories

P

private-enterprise

1 6.1

Relating to businesses owned and run by people or companies to make profit, not the state

E

employee-owned enterprise

4.6

A business where workers have most or all of the company, often through shares

I

illegitimate enterprise

• NSFW

8.3

A business that breaks the law to make money

How Enterprising

audacity

48 6.0

adventurousness

1 4.4

enterprise

8 3.9

caution

142 2.5

timidity

6 5.8

Surface Forms

Etymology