enterprise.

1. A business or other organized undertaking.

2. A project or task requiring effort, planning, and some willingness to take risks.

3. The willingness and ability to take initiative in pursuing opportunities.

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Words that belong together

• commercial enterprise
• social enterprise

On the page

The social enterprise reinvested its profits in local training.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular enterprise; plural enterprises. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.