enterprise Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic)
* entreprise (chiefly archaic)
Noun
( en noun)
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
- The (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
- A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
an active participation in projects
Synonyms
* initiative
Derived terms
* enterprising
* commercial enterprise
* scientific enterprise
Verb
( enterpris)
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
- (Alexander Pope)
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
- The business must be enterprised this night.
* T. Otway
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
( Webster 1913)
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company Noun
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
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# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
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#* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, chapter=30, title= The Dust of Conflict
, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
# A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
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# (label) The entire crew of a ship.
# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
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(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
* {{quote-book, author=Robert Barr, authorlink=Robert Barr (writer), title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation
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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
* {{quote-magazine, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer citation
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, title=Obama goes troll-hunting citation
(label) Social visitors or companions.
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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest
, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
(label) Companionship.
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
Synonyms
* corporation
Derived terms
* a man is known by the company he keeps
* British East India Company
* companiate
* company clinic
* company doctor
* company front
* company man
* company officer
* company seal
* company-specific risk
* company store
* company time
* company town
* company union
* fast company
* fire company
* growth company
* holding company
* in-company
* incorporated company
* insurance company
* intracompany
* investment company
* joint-stock company
* keep somebody company
* listed company
* limited liability company
* livery company
* management company
* mixed company
* mutual company
* offshore company
* parent company
* present company excepted
* private company
* quoted company
* shell company
* ship's company
* sister company
* stock company
* the company
* title company
* touring company
* trust company
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* you don't dip your pen in company ink
Related terms
* accompany
* companion
* discompany
Verb
(archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
- Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
- it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
(archaic) To associate.
* Bible, Acts i. 21
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
(obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
- (Spenser)
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
- (Bishop Hall)
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