The Collaborative International Dictionary
free-enterprise
free-enterprise \free-enterprise\ adj. Of or pertaining to the free enterprise system having private ownership of the means of production and competition between enterprises. [prenominal] [Narrower terms: capitalistic, capitalist] socialistic
Syn: competitive, private-enterprise(prenominal).
WordNet
free-enterprise
adj. subscribing to capitalistic competition [syn: competitive, free-enterprise(a), private-enterprise(a)]
Usage examples of "free-enterprise".
Next question: had Cortez decided to opt for this most vigorous branch of the free-enterprise system or was he still working under Cuban control?
But the usual carnivorous free-enterprise market forces had jolted some kind of rough order into the mess.