Definitions for Enterprise

Enterprise en·ter·prise

Spelling: [en-ter-prahyz]
IPA: /ˈɛn tərˌpraɪz/

Enterprise is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 463 anagrams from letters in Enterprise (eeeinprrst).

Definitions for Enterprise

noun

  1. a project undertaken or to be undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult or that requires boldness or energy:
  2. a plan for such a project.
  3. participation or engagement in such projects:
  4. boldness or readiness in undertaking; adventurous spirit; ingenuity.
  5. a company organized for commercial purposes; business firm.
  6. (initial capital letter) Military. the first nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1961, with a displacement of 89,000 tons (80,723 metric tons) and eight reactors.
  7. (initial capital letter, italics) U.S. Aerospace. the first space shuttle, used for atmospheric flight and landing tests.
  8. a city in S Alabama.

Origin of Enterprise

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French, noun use of feminine of entrepris (past participle of entreprendre to undertake) Latin inter- inter- + prēnsus grasped, s

Examples for Enterprise

Magua had now attained one great object of all his cunning and enterprise.

But Broadcasting & Cable reported that last year, it was a $55 million enterprise.

Montacute undertook the enterprise on the 19th of October, 1330.

Young Vail applied to his father, who was a man of enterprise and intelligence.

If he failed in one enterprise he would start off on another.

This, of course, is why the enterprise is called natural science.

As Mitchell was looking to expand his enterprise in the mid-2000s, he ran into a roadblock.

After a fruitful year (earning $81 total) he expanded his enterprise.

Yes, the gun:  “While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.”

The real purpose of the enterprise is indicated in the last clause.

Word Value for Enterprise
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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