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 count or uncount business 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
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
