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.