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Enterprise vs Mart - What's the difference?

enterprise | mart |

As a noun enterprise

is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

As a verb enterprise

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

As a proper noun mart is

march (third month of the gregorian calendar) or mart can be mar (march).

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)

    mart

    English

    Etymology 1

    Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A market.
  • * (William Cowper)
  • Where has commerce such a mart as London?
  • (obsolete) A bargain.
  • * 1616 ,
  • Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
  • (obsolete) To traffic.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) Mars (stem Mart- ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mart — The god .
  • (obsolete) Battle; contest.
  • Anagrams

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