enterprise
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
enterprise/ˈentəprʌɪz/
▶noun
- 1 a project or undertaking, especially a bold one.
■ bold resourcefulness.
- 2 a business or company.
– derivatives
enterpriser noun.
enterpriser noun.
– origin ME: from OFr., ‘something undertaken’, fem. past part. (used as n.) of entreprendre, based on L. prendere, prehendere ‘to take’.
'enterprise' also found in these Oxford entries:
abort
- absorption costing
- bell
- BERR
- bootstrap
- collective
- come
- conservative
- endeavour
- enterprise zone
- entrepreneur
- fellow
- finance
- first fruits
- fling
- fortune
- free enterprise
- front-load
- gamble
- grow
- growing pains
- grubstake
- hansel
- infrastructure
- kill
- kiss
- launch
- leap
- mastermind
- micromanage
- mixed economy
- NEB
- operator
- point
- Ponzi scheme
- private enterprise
- privateer
- project
- push
- put
- ring
- self-financing
- show
- SME
- springboard
- take
- transglobal
- underinvest
- undertake
