Enterprises vs Establishments - What's the difference?

As a verb enterprises

is third-person singular of enterprise.

plural of establishment.

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(enterprise)

(wikipedia enterprise)

* enterprize (chiefly archaic) * entreprise (chiefly archaic)

(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

* initiative

* enterprising * commercial enterprise * scientific enterprise

(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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