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RELATED WORDS : business enterprise commercial enterprise employee-owned enterprise enterprise zone free enterprise illegitimate enterprise industrial enterprise private enterprise

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun enterprise has 3 senses

• enterprise(n = noun.act) endeavor, endeavour - a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"
has particulars: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise, racket, forlorn hope, business activity, commercial activity
is a kind of labor, project, task, undertaking
Derived form noun enterpriser₁

• enterprise(n = noun.group) Array - an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader"
is a kind of organisation, organization
has particulars: giant, collective, business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern, commercial enterprise
Derived form noun enterpriser₁

• enterprise(n = noun.attribute) enterprisingness, go-ahead, initiative - readiness to embark on bold new ventures; Array
is a kind of drive
Derived form noun enterpriser₁

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THESAURUS

enterprise

Aktiengesellschaft, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, activities, activity, adventure, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, affair, affairs, aggression, aggressiveness, aktiebolag, ambition, ambitiousness, approach, aristeia, arrangement, attack, attempt, audaciousness, audacity, bag, balls, bang, blow, blueprint, blueprinting, body corporate, bold stroke, boldness, bravado, bravura, business, business establishment, calculation, campaign, cartel, cause, chamber of commerce, charting, combine, commerce, commercial enterprise, commitment, compagnie, company, conception, concern, concernment, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, contract, contrivance, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, coup, courage, daring, dash, deal, dealings, deed, derring-do, design, determination, device, disposition, diversified corporation, doing, doings, drive, dynamism, eagerness, effort, employ, employment, emprise, endeavor, energy, engagement, enterprisingness, enthusiasm, envisagement, establishment, exploit, fait accompli, feat, figuring, fire, firm, foolhardiness, force, forcefulness, foresight, forethought, function, game, gest, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, gumption, guts, hand, handiwork, heroic act, holding company, house, hustle, idea, industry, initiative, intention, interest, inventiveness, job, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, kick, labor, layout, lineup, long-range plan, lookout, maneuver, mapping, master plan, matter, measure, method, methodology, mettle, move, obligation, occupation, operating company, operation, operations research, organization, outfit, overboldness, overt act, partnership, passage, pep, pepper, performance, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, plan, planning, planning function, plunderbund, pool, poop, prearrangement, procedure, proceeding, production, program, program of action, project, proposition, public utility, punch, purpose, purposefulness, pursuit, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, rationalization, res gestae, resolve, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, self-reliance, service, setup, snap, speculation, spirit, spunk, starch, step, stock company, strategic plan, strategy, striving, stroke, struggle, stunt, syndicate, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, task, the big picture, the picture, thing, thing done, thrust, tour de force, trade association, transaction, trust, turn, undertaking, up-and-comingness, utility, venture, venturesomeness, venturousness, verve, vigor, vim, way, work, working plan, works, zeal, zing, zip

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Pursuit

N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.

Undertaking

N undertaking, compact, adventure, venture, engagement, enterprise, emprise, pilgrimage, matter in hand, move, first move, undertaking, on the anvil, Int, here goes!.

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