What does Enterprise mean?

Definitions for Enterprise
ˈɛn tərˌpraɪzen·ter·prise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enterprise, endeavor, endeavournoun

    a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

    "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"

  2. enterprisenoun

    an organization created for business ventures

    "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader"

  3. enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative, go-aheadnoun

    readiness to embark on bold new ventures

Wiktionary

  1. enterprisenoun

    A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

  2. enterprisenoun

    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.

  3. enterprisenoun

    A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

    He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.

  4. enterprisenoun

    an active participation in projects

  5. Etymology: From via and, feminine past participle of entreprendre, from entre + prendre, from Latin inter + prehendo, see prehensile.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ENTERPRISEnoun

    An undertaking of hazard; an arduous attempt.

    Etymology: entreprise, French.

    Now is the time to execute mine enterprises to the destruction of the enemies. Judith ii. 5.

    Whet on Warwick to this enterprise. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    The day approach’d, when fortune should decide
    Th’ important enterprise, and give the bride. Dryden.

  2. To Enterpriseverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest
    Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

    Princes were only chiefs of those assemblies, by whose consultations and authority the great actions were resolved and enterprised. William Temple.

    An epick poem, or the heroick action of some great commander, enterprised for the common good and honour of the Christian cause, and executed happily, may be as well written now as it was of old by the heathens. John Dryden, Juv. Dedicat.

    Haste then, and lose no time:
    The business must be enterpris’d this night;
    We must surprise the court in its delight. Dryden.

    In goodly garments, that her well became,
    Fair marching forth in honourable wise,
    Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise. Fa. Qu.

ChatGPT

  1. enterprise

    An enterprise is a business or company established with the objective of providing goods or services in exchange for profit. This encompasses various types, sizes and sectors of businesses, ranging from small businesses to large corporations. An enterprise can also refer to a particularly ambitious or large scale project or undertaking.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Enterprisenoun

    that which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise

  2. Enterprisenoun

    willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise

  3. Enterpriseverb

    to undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon

  4. Enterpriseverb

    to treat with hospitality; to entertain

  5. Enterpriseverb

    to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult

  6. Etymology: [F. enterprise, fr. entreprendre to undertake; entre between (L. inter) + prendre to take. See Inter, and Emprise.]

Wikidata

  1. Enterprise

    Enterprise is a fictional spaceship which appeared in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It had the in-universe registration of NX-01 and appeared earlier in the franchise timeline than any Starfleet ship named Enterprise. The producers of the series had originally intended to use an Akira-class starship as seen in Star Trek: First Contact, but production designer Herman Zimmerman talked them into using a design with greater influence from Star Trek: The Original Series. Doug Drexler designed the exterior of the vessel, eventually arriving at the final design after also suggesting a Daedalus-class starship with a sphere-shaped primary hull, and a ship more reminiscent of the USS Enterprise complete with secondary hull. These ideas were turned down by the producers, who instead pushed for the final version as seen. Drexler also proposed a refit design, which may have been used if the series continued into a fifth season. The interior of the ship was designed by a number of staff members, but primarily by Zimmerman.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Enterprise

    en′tėr-prīz, n. that which is attempted: a bold or dangerous undertaking: an adventure: daring.—v.t. to undertake.—n. En′terpriser, an adventurer.—p.adj. En′terprising, forward in undertaking: adventurous.—adv. En′terprisingly. [O. Fr. entreprise, pa.p. of entreprendreentre, in, prendre—L. prehendĕre, to seize.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. enterprise

    An undertaking of difficulty and danger.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. enterprise

    An undertaking attended with some hazard and danger.

Editors Contribution

  1. enterprisenoun

    1.) a project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort. Initiative and resourcefulness. 2.) a business or company. Entrepreneurial economic activity.

    The enterprise started a dynasty for the commanding officers of star-fleet.

    Etymology: Dynasty


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on June 2, 2024  


  2. enterprise

    A group of united people who work together with a perfect, accurate, simple and specific budget, goals, laws, legislation, objectives, plans, processes, procedures, rules, strategies, structures, systems, treaties, vision, equal and identical pay for all, sense of solidarity and cohesion. These organizations employ a moderate number of employees who receive the equal and identical pay for all, equal holiday entitlement and all profits earned from the organization are reinvested where required, just and fair or shared with the national unity government to redistribute using just real-time data, information, facts, research and statistics and an agreed percentage to the united nations SDG projects which are assessed and approved by the relevant community, local, regional, national or international SDG assessment panel

    The enterprise is created to ensure equality, unity of purpose and a role in the community for all.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2020  


  3. enterprise

    The activity of providing commodities, goods, products or services.

    To manage an enterprise is a real gift that many chose to do as it gives them the freedom to create according to their sense of ethics, morals and passion.


    Submitted by MaryC on August 20, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Enterprise' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2417

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Enterprise' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3532

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Enterprise' in Nouns Frequency: #775

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Enterprise in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Enterprise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Enterprise in a Sentence

  1. Michael Lin:

    Slack should do really well because it's an enterprise company. Look at PagerDuty, Zoom and CrowdStrike. They all got high valuations, slack has even stronger brand recognition.

  2. Erik Kreifeldt:

    Utilization is very low compared to what they can do, there’s some frustration from global wholesale and enterprise guys who wish it was an easier option for transit traffic.

  3. Trip Chowdhry:

    Only two companies are setting the tone of enterprise computing, Microsoft Office Azure and Amazon AWS.

  4. Marvin Stone:

    We both had farm backgrounds. We both were free enterprise people and we had similar goals in life, and we were both in teaching, we were just kind of together in our concepts of what to do and what direction to go and so forth. To that end, the couple cited their faith in one another as the fuel for both good times and bad.

  5. Paulo Cesar Silva:

    Given the support, Bombardier has been very aggressive, to the point of offering planes at prices below their production costs. That's what the numbers show, it causes a major distortion in the market. We're not competing with a private enterprise any more. We're competing with the government.

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