Look up: enterprise

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   Enterprise
   Enterprise is the name of several American ships. The original Enterprise was a Sloop launched in 1874. She was a barque-rigged, wooden-hulled vessel armed with a 134 mm gun, four 228 mm guns and one 280 mm gun. The current Enterprise is an American aircraft carrier launched in 1960 and capable of a top speed of 35 knots and capable of carrying 99 aircraft.
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   Enterprise
   Enterprise is a city partly in Coffee County and partly in Dale County Alabama, USA Enterprise is a city in Wallowa County Oregon, USA Enterprise is a CDP in Clark County Nevada, USA Enterprise is a township in Valley County Nebraska, USA Enterprise is a township in Nelson County North Dakota, USA Enterprise is a township in Linn County Missouri, USA Enterprise is a town in Clarke County Mississippi, USA Enterprise is a CDP in Harrison County West Virginia, USA Enterprise is a town in Oneida Cou...
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   Enterprise
   A term used to refer to entrepreneurial skill. It is often used to describe the factor of production - entrepreneurship. It is the skills and ability to take risk and create profit.
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   Enterprise
   The production of a particular commodity or group of related commodities.
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   enterprise
   [n] - an organization created for business ventures 2. [n] - readiness to embark on bold new ventures 3. [n] - a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)
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   Enterprise
   Information Portal
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   (UNI) The Italian national standards body, a member of ISO.
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   enterprise
   used to indicate all types of economic activity,including both large and small and medium-sized undertakings,whatever their legal status or the manner of applying new technologies Category: Transport • The industrial arm of the International Seabed Authority. Category: Management in the public and private sector
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   Enterprise
   En'ter·prise noun [ French enterprise , from entreprendre to undertake; entre between (L. inter ) + prendre to take. See Inter , and Emprise .] 1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a ...
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    Enterprise
    En'ter·prise transitive verb 1. To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. [ R.] « The business must be enterprised this night.» Dryden. « What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!» T. Otway. 2. To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [ Obsolete] « Him at the threshold met, and well did ...
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    Enterprise
    En'ter·prise intransitive verb To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. [ R.] Pope.
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    enterprise
    enterprisingness noun readiness to embark on bold new ventures
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    enterprise
    noun a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); `he had doubts about the whole enterprise`
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    enterprise
    noun an organization created for business ventures; `a growing enterprise must have a bold leader`
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    Enterprise
    A business firm.
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    Enterprise
    `Enterprise` (occasionally archaically spelled `enterprize`) can refer to the following:
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    Enterprise
    • (v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. • (v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. • (n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise. • (v. t.) To treat with hospitalit...
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    Enterprise
    (from the article `Roddenberry, Gene`) ...Star Trek chronicled the 23rd-century adventures of a cast of characters headed by Capt. James Kirk, Mr. Spock, and other officers of the starship ...
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    Enterprise
    (from the article `aircraft carrier`) On Sept. 24, 1960, the first nuclear-powered carrier, the Enterprise, was launched by the United States. It had no need for the fuel bunkers, ... The first nuclear-powered carrier, USS Enterprise, was commissioned in 1961. It was equipped with eight nuclear reactors and steamed for more than ... ...
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    Enterprise
    (from the article `Shreve, Henry Miller`) ...fur trade between St. Louis and Philadelphia, by way of Pittsburgh, and in 1810 he began carrying lead from Galena, Ill., near the upper ...
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    Enterprise
    city, Coffee county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Montgomery. It was founded in 1881 by John Henry Carmichael ...
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    Enterprise
    A firm.
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    Enterprise
    (Shuttle Orbiter) The first flight-capable version of the Space Shuttle Orbiter but one designed for ground and gliding tests only; its official designation is Orbiter OV-101. NASA had originally intended to call this vehicle Constitution in honor of several United States N...
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    ENTERPRISE
    Aggregation of all establishments owned by a parent company. An enterprise can consist of a single, independent establishment or it can include subsidiaries or other branch establishments under the same ownership and control.
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    Enterprise
    Enterprise, city (1990 pop. 20,123), Coffee co., SE Ala.; inc. 1896. It is a peanut-shipping center with many peanut-processing establishments. There are also lumber and textile mills and plants that make concrete. The region's diversified farming began after the boll weevil destroyed (1910–15...
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