(in private enterprise)
1private enterprise — ➔ enterprise * * * private enterprise UK US noun ECONOMICS ► [U] the economic system that is based on the principle of companies being owned privately, rather than by the government: »The relationship between private enterprise and local… …
2private enterprise — n [U] the economic system in which private businesses are allowed to compete freely with each other, and the government does not control industry →↑private sector …
3private enterprise — n. FREE ENTERPRISE * * * …
4private enterprise — index business (commercial enterprise), commerce Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
5private enterprise — n. FREE ENTERPRISE …
6private enterprise — noun count or uncount business and industry that is owned and managed by independent people or businesses, rather than by the government …
7private enterprise — ► NOUN ▪ business or industry managed by independent companies rather than the state …
8private enterprise — Cultivating the soil, manufacturing articles for sale, dealing in merchandise, and the pursuit of numerous and various other activities which enlist individual energy. Dodge v Mission Tp. (CA8 Kan) 107 F 827. In the language of the… …
9private enterprise — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms private enterprise : singular private enterprise plural private enterprises economics business and industry that is owned and managed by independent people or businesses, rather than by the… …
10private enterprise — N UNCOUNT Private enterprise is industry and business which is owned by individual people or commercial companies, and not by the government or an official organization. ...the government s plans to sell state companies to private enterprise …
