Definition of "enterprise"

enterprise

/ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural enterprises
1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
3. (uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
  Quotations
  This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.
  1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live
4. (uncountable) Active participation in projects.
verb
third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised
1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
  Quotations
  Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia
  1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]
2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
  Quotations
  The business must be enterprised this night.
  1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
  What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
  c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry
3. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
  Quotations
  Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprize.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 14

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