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Journey vs Enterprise - What's the difference?

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Journey is a related term of enterprise.


As nouns the difference between journey and enterprise

is that journey is a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage while enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

As verbs the difference between journey and enterprise

is that journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage while enterprise is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

journey

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
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  • (label) A day.
  • (label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • (label) A day's work.
  • *:
  • *:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    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)