enterprise

Definition

  • noun: a project or activity that involves many people and that is often difficult
  • noun: a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
  • synonyms: undertaking, undertaking, undertake

Examples

  • The new regulations are intended to encourage the growth of small, independent 'enterprises'. [='companies']

  • He was criticized for his lack of 'enterprise' in dealing with the crisis.

  • When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial 'enterprise'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none. What beast was't, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man. And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. I have given suck (..)
    2015 Macbeth