Enterprise

Noun

 * 1) a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor
 * The government sponsored enterprises (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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) a willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative
 * He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
 * 1) an active participation in projects

Adjectives for Enterprise
profitable; amazing; legitimate; individual; heterogeneous; successful; commercial; regional; dignified; lofty; voluntary; economic; vulgar; protracted; inadequate; stupid; philanthropic; characteristic; romantic; fresh; monumental; desperate; year-round; unscrupulous; blameless; ill-starred; magnanimous; daring; equal; vivid; manly; costly; co-operative; active; chimerical; honorable; venturesome; formidable; uncertain; serviceable; perilous; glorious; prodigious; productive; fabulous; nautical; mundane; infernal; gigantic; prominent; dangerous; hazardous; brilliant; illegal; crusading; charitable; appalling;  audacious; inviting; indomitable; laudable; imaginative; delicate.

Verbs for Enterprise
abandon—; —; embark enroll in—; imperil—; arm for—; consider—; display on—; endanger—; enlist in—; exploit—; finance—; hazard—; initiate—; manage—; partake in—; persist in—; risk—; stimulate—; struggle in—; swear to—; undertake—; venture on—; —fails; —flourishes; —prospers; —requires; —succeeds; —thrives.

Synonyms for Enterprise
action, business.
 * initiative, undertaking, venture, adventure, work, performance, endeavor, energy, scheme, risk, hazard, engagement, activity,

Antonyms for Enterprise
inactivity, inaction, indolence, passiveness, sloth, unemployment.

Derived terms

 * enterprising
 * commercial enterprise
 * scientific enterprise

Thesaurus
Aktiengesellschaft, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, activities, activity, adventure, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, affair, affairs, aggression, aggressiveness, aktiebolag, ambition, ambitiousness, approach, aristeia, arrangement, attack, attempt, audaciousness, audacity, bag, balls, bang, blow, blueprint, blueprinting, body corporate, bold stroke, boldness, bravado, bravura, business, business establishment, calculation, campaign, cartel, cause, chamber of commerce, charting, combine, commerce, commercial enterprise, commitment, compagnie, company, conception, concern, concernment, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, contract, contrivance, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, coup, courage, daring, dash, deal, dealings, deed, derring-do, design, determination, device, disposition, diversified corporation, doing, doings, drive, dynamism, eagerness, effort, employ, employment, emprise, endeavor, energy, engagement, enterprisingness, enthusiasm, envisagement, establishment, exploit, fait accompli, feat, figuring, fire, firm, foolhardiness, force, forcefulness, foresight, forethought, function, game, gest, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, ginger, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, gumption, guts, hand, handiwork, heroic act, holding company, house, hustle, idea, industry, initiative, intention, interest, inventiveness, job, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, kick, labor, layout, lineup, long-range plan, lookout, maneuver, mapping, master plan, matter, measure, method, methodology, mettle, move, obligation, occupation, operating company, operation, operations research, organization, outfit, overboldness, overt act, partnership, passage, pep, pepper, performance, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, plan, planning, planning function, plunderbund, pool, poop, prearrangement, procedure, proceeding, production, program, program of action, project, proposition, public utility, punch, purpose, purposefulness, pursuit, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, rationalization, res gestae, resolve, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, self-reliance, service, setup, snap, speculation, spirit, spunk, starch, step, stock company, strategic plan, strategy, striving, stroke, struggle, stunt, syndicate, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, task, the big picture, the picture, thing, thing done, thrust, tour de force, trade association, transaction, trust, turn, undertaking, up-and-comingness, utility, venture, venturesomeness, venturousness, verve, vigor, vim, way, work, working plan, works, zeal, zing, zip

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

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: virksomhed, foretagende
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 事業
 * Latvian: uzņēmums
 * Lithuanian: įmonė
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: podjetje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: foretag


 * Czech:
 * Danish: bedrift
 * German: Unterfangen
 * Hebrew:, יזמה


 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: empresa, emprendimiento
 * Swedish: vågstycke


 * Danish: foretagsomhed, initiativ
 * Hebrew: יזמות, יזמה
 * Japanese: 冒険心


 * Spanish: empuje, iniciativa
 * Swedish: vågstycke