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Enterprises vs Trading - What's the difference?

enterprises | trading |

As verbs the difference between enterprises and trading

is that enterprises is third-person singular of enterprise while trading is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective trading is

carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.

As a noun trading is

the carrying on of trade.

enterprises

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enterprise)

    • Anagrams

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    enterprise

    English

    (wikipedia 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)

    trading

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
    • a trading company
  • (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
  • * Milton
    • they on the trading flood
  • (obsolete) venal; corrupt; jobbing
    • a trading politician

    Noun

  • The carrying on of trade.
  • * Bible, Revelations
    • But thy riches and thy tradings , thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas

    Derived terms

    * program trading (Webster 1913)

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