free-enterprise economy
1Free enterprise — may refer to:* Free enterprise system or Free enterprise economy , another term for capitalism * Free Enterprise , a film featuring William ShatnerThree important rights people have in the free enterprise system? …
2free enterprise — Synonyms and related words: autarky, bimetallism, bourgeois, capitalism, capitalist, capitalistic system, economic self sufficiency, finance capitalism, free competition, free economy, free trade, free enterprise economy, free enterprise system,… …
3free-market economy — An economy dominated by private enterprise. In a free market economy industrial output, the *prices of products and services, and the allocation of economic resources are determined by the unhindered interplay of the forces of supply and demand.… …
4free market economy — an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated (usually through employing wage labour, and for profit), and in which the investment of capital and the production, distribution and prices of… …
5free enterprise — n. 1. an economic system having predominantly private ownership of the means of production, and relying chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices, and having a minimum of governmental interference in… …
6free enterprise — free enterprising, adj. 1. an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and… …
7free enterprise — free′ en′terprise n. 1) bus the doctrine that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a competitive market on the basis of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental regulation 2) bus the practice of free enterprise • Etymology: 1885–90 …
8free enterprise — noun an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices • Syn: ↑market economy, ↑private enterprise, ↑laissez faire economy • Ant: ↑non market economy (for: ↑market economy) …
9free enterprise system — an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated (usually through employing wage labour, and for profit), and in which the investment of capital and the production, distribution and prices of… …
10free enterprise — noun Date: 1890 freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance …
