单词 | individual enterprise |
释义 | > as lemmasindividual enterprise individual enterprise n. work or business that is undertaken by private individuals rather than a state organization; an example of this; cf. private enterprise n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > free of state control private enterprise1789 individual enterprise1790 free enterprise1814 1790 J. B. Burges Lett. on Present Dispute Spain iii. 7 Such was the nature of the two establishments; the one, a national concern..; the other, an individual enterprize. 1859 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 643/2 There is this difference between our doings and those of the great military nations of the Continent; our labours are mostly commercial, the result of individual enterprise..; theirs are more or less governmental. 1957 P. I. Rosenteur Morpheus & Me xvi. 270 Our system of individual enterprise has made it possible for anyone, whatever his original social or economic status, to work and worry himself right into the front ranks of the insomniac army. 2010 J. Knight Brit. Politics for Dummies xxiv. 364 Nixon's visit also heralded China's opening up to Western ideas such as freeing up markets and promoting individual enterprise. < as lemmas |
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