Enterprising
adjective
Being active in thinking of new projects or methods and making them happen.
The enterprising young man started his own business at the age of 20.
adjective
Ready and able to think and act rapidly and effectively, especially in business or commerce situations.
An enterprising entrepreneur saw a gap in the market and filled it.
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Technical
adjective
Displaying a fearless spirit and readiness to embark on new ventures or concepts.
She was an enterprising explorer, always ready to discover new places.
adjective
Being active in thinking of new projects or methods and making them happen.
The enterprising young man started his own business at the age of 20.
adjective
Ready and able to think and act rapidly and effectively, especially in business or commerce situations.
An enterprising entrepreneur saw a gap in the market and filled it.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Displaying a fearless spirit and readiness to embark on new ventures or concepts.
She was an enterprising explorer, always ready to discover new places.
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Pro Tip 1/3Action Oriented
Focus on people initiating projects, indicating drive and determination to succeed.
Her enterprising attitude led to the successful launch of the new app.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-Driven Success
Highlights individuals taking initiative, often as self-starters without needing external motivation.
He showed enterprising skills by organizing a community fundraiser.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Problem-Solving
Indicates using innovation to overcome challenges, often in unexpected ways.
She devised an enterprising solution to reduce expenses.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Oriented
Focus on people initiating projects, indicating drive and determination to succeed.
Her enterprising attitude led to the successful launch of the new app.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-Driven Success
Highlights individuals taking initiative, often as self-starters without needing external motivation.
He showed enterprising skills by organizing a community fundraiser.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Problem-Solving
Indicates using innovation to overcome challenges, often in unexpected ways.
She devised an enterprising solution to reduce expenses.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Oriented
Focus on people initiating projects, indicating drive and determination to succeed.
Her enterprising attitude led to the successful launch of the new app.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-Driven Success
Highlights individuals taking initiative, often as self-starters without needing external motivation.
He showed enterprising skills by organizing a community fundraiser.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Problem-Solving
Indicates using innovation to overcome challenges, often in unexpected ways.
She devised an enterprising solution to reduce expenses.
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Photographing Our Seas:...
swim slalom-wise to get through them without them knocking you on the head, which never been hit by a manta ray, which is, you know knock on, is this real wood? Knock on wood. Great. Manta rays, you know, when the plankton's gone, they leave. And there's a few enterprising rays that have figured out that plankton hides on the seabed.
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How Containerization...
By then, he'd built his one truck into a big trucking company. He borrowed money from an enterprising vice president at Citibank in New York, and set about designing the steel boxes and the decks of the ships to carry them stacked one on top of another. A lot of people thought he was crazy.
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Rajesh Rao: Computing a...
the Indus people were very, very enterprising. They used to trade with people pretty far away from where they lived, and so in this case, they were traveling by sea all the way to Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. And what seems to have happened here is that the Indus traders, the merchants,
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How an obese town lost a...
But along at the end of the '80s came an enterprising businessman who became mayor named Ron Norick. Ron Norick eventually figured out that the secret to economic development wasn't incentivizing companies up front, it was about creating a place where businesses wanted to locate,
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How the Suez Canal...
But Egypt's political and economic autonomy was gradually increasing, and its government was eager to pursue the project. When Sa’id Pasha came into power in 1854, he approved a plan from the enterprising and manipulative French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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Andrew Mwenda: Let's...
as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie. Ladies and gentlemen, the most enterprising people in Africa cannot find opportunities to trade and to work in the private sector
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Pirates, nurses and...
He's now developing not only the Cardiopad, but other mobile medical devices to treat different conditions. And he isn't alone, because there are many other inspiring and enterprising designers
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Why do we have museums?...
curated by their owners, rulers and aristocrats, as well as merchants and early scientists. Now, who hears a circus organ? In the 1840s, an enterprising young showman named Phineas T. Barnum
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Experience Medieval Art...
century belfry overlooking the town square enterprising visitors can climb 366 steps for a panoramic view of the city the medieval structures blend harmoniously with the neo gothic
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The surprising cause of...
In 1984, an enterprising Australian doctor named Barry Marshall decided to take a risk. Too many of his patients were complaining of severe abdominal pain due to stomach ulcers,
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Photographing Our Seas:...
swim slalom-wise to get through them without them knocking you on the head, which never been hit by a manta ray, which is, you know knock on, is this real wood? Knock on wood. Great. Manta rays, you know, when the plankton's gone, they leave. And there's a few enterprising rays that have figured out that plankton hides on the seabed.
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How Containerization...
By then, he'd built his one truck into a big trucking company. He borrowed money from an enterprising vice president at Citibank in New York, and set about designing the steel boxes and the decks of the ships to carry them stacked one on top of another. A lot of people thought he was crazy.
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Rajesh Rao: Computing a...
the Indus people were very, very enterprising. They used to trade with people pretty far away from where they lived, and so in this case, they were traveling by sea all the way to Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq. And what seems to have happened here is that the Indus traders, the merchants,
Video examples
How an obese town lost a...
But along at the end of the '80s came an enterprising businessman who became mayor named Ron Norick. Ron Norick eventually figured out that the secret to economic development wasn't incentivizing companies up front, it was about creating a place where businesses wanted to locate,
Video examples
How the Suez Canal...
But Egypt's political and economic autonomy was gradually increasing, and its government was eager to pursue the project. When Sa’id Pasha came into power in 1854, he approved a plan from the enterprising and manipulative French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Video examples
Andrew Mwenda: Let's...
as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie. Ladies and gentlemen, the most enterprising people in Africa cannot find opportunities to trade and to work in the private sector
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Pirates, nurses and...
He's now developing not only the Cardiopad, but other mobile medical devices to treat different conditions. And he isn't alone, because there are many other inspiring and enterprising designers
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Why do we have museums?...
curated by their owners, rulers and aristocrats, as well as merchants and early scientists. Now, who hears a circus organ? In the 1840s, an enterprising young showman named Phineas T. Barnum
Video examples
Experience Medieval Art...
century belfry overlooking the town square enterprising visitors can climb 366 steps for a panoramic view of the city the medieval structures blend harmoniously with the neo gothic
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The surprising cause of...
In 1984, an enterprising Australian doctor named Barry Marshall decided to take a risk. Too many of his patients were complaining of severe abdominal pain due to stomach ulcers,
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Sendhil Mullainathan
American Economist
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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Leland Stanford
American Businessman
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
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Jim Ross
American Entertainer
Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.
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Mother Angelica
American Educator
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.
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Suniel Shetty
Indian Actor
I believe that when you have only one life, it makes sense to live it to the full - so whatever interesting and enterprising comes my way, I want to get into.
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Said Musa
Statesman
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
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Erwin McManus
American Author
It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
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Diana Taylor
American Public Servant
It's absolutely astounding how enterprising people are.
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Sendhil Mullainathan
American Economist
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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Leland Stanford
American Businessman
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
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Jim Ross
American Entertainer
Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.
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Mother Angelica
American Educator
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.
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Suniel Shetty
Indian Actor
I believe that when you have only one life, it makes sense to live it to the full - so whatever interesting and enterprising comes my way, I want to get into.
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Said Musa
Statesman
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
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Erwin McManus
American Author
It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
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Diana Taylor
American Public Servant
It's absolutely astounding how enterprising people are.
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