Enterprise
noun
A project or activity that is difficult and needs a lot of effort to complete.
Starting a new enterprise is always a risky decision.
Often appears as...
- business enterprise
- enterprise zone
noun
The ability or wish to do something new and clever, despite the risks.
People admire his energy and enterprise.
Often appears as...
- personal enterprise
- show enterprise
noun
A company or business.
The new policy will be beneficial to small and medium enterprises.
Often appears as...
- private enterprise
- enterprise economy
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Technical
noun
A difficult plan, especially one that involves risk.
They are on an enterprise to sail around the world.
Often appears as...
- risky enterprise
- embark on an enterprise
noun
The readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
Entrepreneurs are known for their spirit of enterprise.
Often appears as...
- spirit of enterprise
- enterprise culture
noun
A system or software that manages an organization's data and processes.
The company has recently updated their enterprise software system.
Often appears as...
- enterprise architecture
- enterprise resource planning
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Technical
Technical
noun
A project or activity that is difficult and needs a lot of effort to complete.
Starting a new enterprise is always a risky decision.
Often appears as...
- business enterprise
- enterprise zone
noun
The ability or wish to do something new and clever, despite the risks.
People admire his energy and enterprise.
Often appears as...
- personal enterprise
- show enterprise
noun
A company or business.
The new policy will be beneficial to small and medium enterprises.
Often appears as...
- private enterprise
- enterprise economy
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A difficult plan, especially one that involves risk.
They are on an enterprise to sail around the world.
Often appears as...
- risky enterprise
- embark on an enterprise
noun
The readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
Entrepreneurs are known for their spirit of enterprise.
Often appears as...
- spirit of enterprise
- enterprise culture
noun
A system or software that manages an organization's data and processes.
The company has recently updated their enterprise software system.
Often appears as...
- enterprise architecture
- enterprise resource planning
Usage tips
Technical
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Effort Requirement
Use this sense of 'enterprise' when discussing projects that require significant effort and commitment.
She devoted herself fully to the educational enterprise.
Pro Tip 2/2Risk Awareness
Often implies a notable risk or challenge involved in the project being referenced.
Their latest enterprise could revolutionize the industry, but it's filled with uncertainty.
Pro Tip 1/2Effort Requirement
Use this sense of 'enterprise' when discussing projects that require significant effort and commitment.
She devoted herself fully to the educational enterprise.
Pro Tip 2/2Risk Awareness
Often implies a notable risk or challenge involved in the project being referenced.
Their latest enterprise could revolutionize the industry, but it's filled with uncertainty.
Pro Tip 1/2Effort Requirement
Use this sense of 'enterprise' when discussing projects that require significant effort and commitment.
She devoted herself fully to the educational enterprise.
Pro Tip 2/2Risk Awareness
Often implies a notable risk or challenge involved in the project being referenced.
Their latest enterprise could revolutionize the industry, but it's filled with uncertainty.
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Anyway, but I guess my point is that all of these enterprises are engaging to me in their multiplicity, but as I've presented them to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them.
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only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
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people who live in these regions have been running their own affairs since time immemorial they are proud marshal and well resourced in part because they have built up a rich history of smuggling and other criminal enterprises that have enriched them amongst the drug
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The world is changed by our maps of the world. The way that we choose -- sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives. I believe that what we map changes the life we lead.
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
The profession is the family doctor of enterprise, the family doctor of business, who sits with you in your house, at your kitchen table, at the cafe, and helps you find the resources to transform your passion into a way to make a living.
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both men greatly expanded our understanding of evolution. But their egotistical one-upmanship reminds us that, in spite of its ideals, science is a personal enterprise conducted by individual— and at times deeply flawed— human beings.
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America’s most just...
capitalism around the concept of justice where socially responsible corporate activity becomes just as important to companies as does making money so with that idea in mind we created a couple of years ago a not-for-profit enterprise
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Identity politics always works on two to give pride to people who have a given condition or characteristic, and to cause the outside world to treat such people more gently and more kindly. Those are two totally separate enterprises,
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The way we think about...
We've all been taught that the bake sale with five percent overhead is morally superior to the professional fundraising enterprise with 40 percent overhead, but we're missing the most important piece of information, which
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Gaming can make a better...
in skills like local insight, knowledge networking, sustainability, vision and resourcefulness. I would like to invite all of you to please share this game with young people, anywhere in the world, particularly in developing areas, who might benefit from coming together to try to start to imagine their own social enterprises to save the world.
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The mad scientist of...
Anyway, but I guess my point is that all of these enterprises are engaging to me in their multiplicity, but as I've presented them to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them.
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Vermicomposting: How...
only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
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Inside al Qaeda PIPE...
people who live in these regions have been running their own affairs since time immemorial they are proud marshal and well resourced in part because they have built up a rich history of smuggling and other criminal enterprises that have enriched them amongst the drug
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Paper towns and why...
The world is changed by our maps of the world. The way that we choose -- sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives. I believe that what we map changes the life we lead.
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
The profession is the family doctor of enterprise, the family doctor of business, who sits with you in your house, at your kitchen table, at the cafe, and helps you find the resources to transform your passion into a way to make a living.
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The most notorious...
both men greatly expanded our understanding of evolution. But their egotistical one-upmanship reminds us that, in spite of its ideals, science is a personal enterprise conducted by individual— and at times deeply flawed— human beings.
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America’s most just...
capitalism around the concept of justice where socially responsible corporate activity becomes just as important to companies as does making money so with that idea in mind we created a couple of years ago a not-for-profit enterprise
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How the worst moments in...
Identity politics always works on two to give pride to people who have a given condition or characteristic, and to cause the outside world to treat such people more gently and more kindly. Those are two totally separate enterprises,
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The way we think about...
We've all been taught that the bake sale with five percent overhead is morally superior to the professional fundraising enterprise with 40 percent overhead, but we're missing the most important piece of information, which
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Fred Upton
American Politician
Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
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James Cameron
American Director
It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
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Eric Yuan
American Businessman
We're learning that, when it comes to enterprise users or otherwise, privacy is very important. Some features might work well for enterprise customers and may not work for consumers. You've got to have balance.
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Reed Hastings
American Businessman
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
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Alexander Fleming
Scottish Scientist
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
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Gene Green
American Politician
I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.
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Fred Upton
American Politician
Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
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Ivanka Trump
American Businesswoman
In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
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James Cameron
American Director
It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.
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Eric Yuan
American Businessman
We're learning that, when it comes to enterprise users or otherwise, privacy is very important. Some features might work well for enterprise customers and may not work for consumers. You've got to have balance.
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Reed Hastings
American Businessman
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
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Alexander Fleming
Scottish Scientist
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
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Gene Green
American Politician
I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.
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