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enterpriser
en·ter·prise E0160300 (ĕn′tər-prīz′)n.1. An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.2. A business organization.3. Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit: Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.4. Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs" (Henry David Thoreau).
[Middle English, from Old French entreprise, from past participle of entreprendre, to undertake : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + prendre, to take (from Latin prehendere, prēndere; see ghend- in Indo-European roots).]
en′ter·pris′er n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  enterpriser - someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for itentrepreneurbourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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