Enterprise vs Venture - What's the difference?
enterprise | venture |
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
an active participation in projects
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
* T. Otway
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
* Shakespeare
To undertake a risky or daring journey.
* J. Dryden, Jr.
To risk or offer.
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
To put or send on a venture or chance.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
* Addison
To say something.
In intransitive terms the difference between enterprise and venture
is that enterprise is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult while venture is to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or onIn transitive terms the difference between enterprise and venture
is that enterprise is to treat with hospitality; to entertain while venture is to say something.enterprise
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(wikipedia enterprise)Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic) * entreprise (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
Synonyms
* initiativeDerived terms
* enterprising * commercial enterprise * scientific enterpriseVerb
(enterpris)- (Alexander Pope)
- The business must be enterprised this night.
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
venture
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Noun
(en noun)- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
- (Francis Bacon)
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
(ventur)- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
