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/ˈɛntərprˌaɪz/ /ˈɛnərprˌaɪz/ Listen

noun

Enterprise n.

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. "Their hands can not perform their enterprise."

Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

verb

Enterprise v. t.

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. (R.) "The business must be enterprised this night." "What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!"

To treat with hospitality; to entertain. (Obs.) "Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise."

Enterprise v. i. To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Enterprise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enterprise" Quotes from Famous Books

... on which thrust[1] all the other rocks, I would press out the juice of my conception more fully; but since I have them not, not without fear I bring myself to speak; for to describe the bottom of the whole universe is no enterprise to take up in jest, nor a tongue that cries mamma or babbo. But may those Dames aid my verse who aided Amphion to close in Thebes; so that from the fact the speech be ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri

... in to-night with one, and such an enterprise against either of the other laagers would now be impossible. There, I can make no further concessions, for all your ...

— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

... to camp after a long and painful hour and with a wagon-bow, which he made into a splint, set the fracture. But our enterprise was at an end. Help would have to be found now, and before spring. One man and a cripple could never get ...

— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

... the man who is a gentleman by birth and culture—by which I mean a man of good family, who has not only gone through the curriculum of a university, but has graduated, so to speak, in society—such a one has every advantage in any conceivable situation. The records of military enterprise, exploration, pioneering, and so forth, furnish abundant evidence of this very obvious fact. You will find, I think, that high breeding and training are conditions of superiority in the human as well as in the equine and canine races; pedigree being, of course, the ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... not have known it," he said, "was in no danger from such an enterprise. We have read the signs too well, Tayoga. Our own people have been lying in their forts, weak of will, waiting to defend themselves, while the French and their allies have had all the wilderness to range over, and in which they might do as they pleased. It is easy ...

— The Masters of the Peaks - A Story of the Great North Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler

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