industrial enterprise
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3.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəl ˈɛntərpraɪz/
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empresa industrial
- Winners and losers cannot be selected a priori from among Poland's 7,800 industrial enterprises in the state sector.
- large industrial enterprise
- state-owned industrial enterprise
Examples
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About 80 percent of industrial enterprises in Russia are on the verge of closing for environmental reasons.
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Unstable political conditions are also likely to boost risk estimates and depress the value of Polish industrial enterprises.
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Currently, Russian industrial enterprises produce complete sets of major technological equipment for waste recycling plants.
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A large part of the oil windfall was invested in public industrial enterprises that almost never ran a profit or faced international competition.
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The first category would comprise the 450 largest industrial enterprises.
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The revenues of industrial enterprises are still taken into the government budget and centrally redistributed.
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The Balcerowicz plan does nothing to stimulate the economic recovery of large industrial enterprises that remain in a monopolistic position.
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A new, broader round of privatizations was undertaken; the railways, the power and gas companies, and a variety of state-owned industrial enterprises were sold.
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The Portuguese Crown, attracted by the abundance of ship timber, located one of its three Brazilian naval shipyards in Belem, which rapidly became the largest-scale industrial enterprise in the Amazon, with a workforce of 370 as early as 1771.
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Many large industrial enterprises in the region focus on sustainable manufacturing practices to minimize environmental impact.
Synonyms
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3.8
A business often new and needing bold action
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3.2
An organization that sells goods or services to make a profit
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'industrial enterprise' is directly and compositionally derived from 'industrial' (relating to industry) and 'enterprise' (an organization or business). This noun phrase follows a transparent modifier-head pattern and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g., Spanish 'empresa industrial'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the intended meaning.
Etymology
The term industrial enterprise joins two simple images: industrial points to factories and machines that make goods, and enterprise means a business or a big project. That's why industrial enterprise now means a large, organized business or project that runs factories and makes products.