enterprise synonym | English synonyms dictionary | Reverso
enterprise
(
enterprises
plural
)
1
n-count
An enterprise is a company or business, often a small one.
(BUSINESS)
usu with supp, oft adj N
There are plenty of small industrial enterprises.
2
n-count
An enterprise is something new, difficult, or important that you do or try to do.
usu supp N
(=venture)
Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.
3
n-uncount
Enterprise is the activity of managing companies and businesses and starting new ones.
(BUSINESS)
usu supp N
He is still involved in voluntary work promoting local enterprise., …a national program of subsidies to private enterprise.
4
n-uncount
Enterprise is the ability to think of new and effective things to do, together with an eagerness to do them.
,
(approval)
…the spirit of enterprise worthy of a free and industrious people.
enterprise zone
(
enterprise zones
plural
)
An enterprise zone is an area, usually a depressed or inner-city area, where the government offers incentives in order to attract new businesses.
(BUSINESS)
n-count
Because it is in an enterprise zone, taxes on non-food items are 3.5% instead of the usual 7%.
free enterprise
Free enterprise is an economic system in which businesses compete for profit without much government control.
(BUSINESS)
n-uncount
private enterprise
Private enterprise is industry and business which is owned by individual people or commercial companies, and not by the government or an official organization.
(BUSINESS)
n-uncount
…the government’s plans to sell state companies to private enterprise.