- private enterprise
- ,private `enterprise noun count or uncountbusiness and industry that is owned and managed by independent people or businesses, rather than by the government
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
private enterprise
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private 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… … Financial and business terms
private 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 … Dictionary of contemporary English
private enterprise — n. FREE ENTERPRISE * * * … Universalium
private enterprise — index business (commercial enterprise), commerce Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
private enterprise — n. FREE ENTERPRISE … English World dictionary
private enterprise — ► NOUN ▪ business or industry managed by independent companies rather than the state … English terms dictionary
private 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… … Ballentine's law dictionary
private 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… … English dictionary
private 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 … English dictionary
private enterprise — illegal trading by an employee Literally, trade or industry not financed by or under the direct control of the state: But there was a great deal of what you might call private enterprise on that run. (Price, 1970, writing about… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
