enterprise
/ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪz/ verb C2- To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
- To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. · c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
He/she/it enterprises · Past enterprised · Past participle enterprised · -ing form enterprising
Verb forms
- Base form
- enterprise
- He/she/it
- enterprises
- Past
- enterprised
- Past participle
- enterprised
- -ing form
- enterprising
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The patron was so strict that this was the first time they had ever seen him give up an enterprise, or even delay in its execution.
I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.
Consider also that I fully believed I had accomplished the end and aim of my undertaking, for which I had so exactly husbanded my strength as to make it just hold out to the termination of my enterprise; and now, at the moment when I reckoned upon success, my hopes are forever dashed from me.
Enterprising local record labels began capturing these raw, authentic performances on vinyl, preserving a crucial piece of cultural heritage.
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