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enterprise | global |

As nouns the difference between enterprise and global

is that enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor while global is (computing) a globally scoped identifier.

As a verb enterprise

is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

As an adjective global is

spherical, ball-shaped.

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)

    global

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spherical, ball-shaped.
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
  • Concerning all parts of the world.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
  • (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
  • Synonyms

    * (spherical) ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical * (of or relating to a globe or sphere) * (concerning all parts of the world) international, universal, world-wide, planetary

    Antonyms

    * (concerning all parts of the world) local, national, regional * local

    Derived terms

    * globalisation, globalization * globalism; globalist * globally * global warming * semiglobal * transglobal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A globally scoped identifier.
  • Antonyms

    * local

    See also

    * (wikipedia) ----