enterprise

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To put up or house; 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

🌱

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seeking

shot in the dark

stab

struggle

sweatshop

test

trade

Translations

entreprise

impresa

Unternehmen

empresa

onderneming

επιχείρηση

empresa

Betrieb

Firma

bedrijf

مشروع

empresa

azienda

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.