Store vs Enterprise - What's the difference?
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A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
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(label) A place where items may be purchased.
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, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
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
In transitive terms the difference between store and enterprise
is that store is To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose while enterprise is to treat with hospitality; to entertain.In intransitive terms the difference between store and enterprise
is that store is To remain in good condition while stored while enterprise is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.store
English
Noun
(en noun)- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply * (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also * (in computing) memoryDerived terms
* company store * drugstore * general store * variety store * give away the store * in store * mind the store * put store in * set store by * storage * storebought * storefront * storehouse * storekeeper * storeroomVerb
(stor)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
Derived terms
* store away * store upSee also
* ("store" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----enterprise
English
(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 .