enterprise

Meaning

Noun

1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
3. A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
4. Active participation in projects.

Verb

1. To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
2. To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
3. To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

Synonyms

business

undertaking

firm

company

venture

corporation

initiative

concern

project

endeavour

establishment

attempt

endeavor

entrepreneurship

industry

work

operation

effort

works

boldness

action

aggressiveness

business undertakings

drive

go

go-ahead

gumption

task

try

job

enterprisingness

get-up-and-go

labor

essay

partnership

lost cause

multinational

offer

operations

organization

pass

plant

🌱

prise

seeking

shot in the dark

stab

struggle

sweatshop

test

trade

trial

undertakings

ventures

willingness

business acumen

large company

crack

development

business organisation

production unit

spirit of enterprise

the whole shooting match

business ventures

manufacturage

activity

affair

ambition

aspiration

assay

bid

blueprint

business firm

business venture

campaign

cause

challenge

chore

companies

courage

crew

crusade

down

dynamism

ensemble

enterprises

entity

exertion

experiment

factory

🏭

fling

foray

get-up

house

🏠

hustle

initiation

institution

joint undertaking

labour

Hyphenated as

en‧ter‧prise

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/

Etymology

From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehendō, see prehensile.