A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

Usage examples of enterprise.

She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded: and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts.

Fleete, accompanying them, as it is said, with such vvonderfull trauell of bodie, as doubtlesse had he bene the meanest person, as he vvas the chiefest, he had yet deserued the first place of honour: and no lesse happie do we accompt him, for being associated with Maister Carleill his Lieutenant generall, by whose experiences, prudent counsell, and gallant performance, he atchiued so many and happie enterprises of the warre, by vvhom also he was verie greatly assisted, in setting downe the needefull orders, lawes, and course of iustice, and for the due administration of the same vpon all occasions.

To-day it is our system of public book-keeping, a part of our state statistical organization, a clearing-house of obligations and a monetary record of the accumulating surplus of racial energy, which the world-controls apportion to our ever expanding enterprises.

Another archetype lurks below the surface: that those who direct social enterprises are more intelligent than those nearer the bottom.

Boeing 727 that had gone missing from Luanda, Angola, had been stolen by or for a Russian arms dealer by the name of Vasily Respin either for parts to be used by one of his enterprises or to be sold to others.

The rapid growth of capitalistic enterprises attracted numerous workers, and the number of engineers was many times multiplied.

Batinite balloonist has shown sufficient enterprise that he deserves the fruit of it.

De Batz walked leisurely, thought-fully, taking stock of everything he saw--the gates, the barriers, the positions of sentinels and warders, of everything in fact that might prove a help or a hindrance presently, when the great enterprise would be hazarded.

At the same time it was not because Heron raved and stormed and uttered cries like a hyena that he, de Batz, meant to give up an enterprise which, if successful, would place millions into his own pocket.

Payroll day at the brewery, as in most business enterprises, was Friday.

At this time, the population of South Australia numbered between seventy and eighty thousand souls, the greater part of whom were remarkable for their intelligence, their industry, and their enterprise, which, in the instance of the Burra Burra, and other copper mines had met with such signal success.

Enterprise Zones are treated as extraterritorial and beyond the laws of Quebec.

Rogers hath holpen our enterprise, it is right that he should share the spoil.

I am assuming com- mand of the Enterprise in the absence of senior officers Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

The Melodist crushed several in the way of reprimand before giving up the enterprise.