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Definitions: Enterprise |
EnterpriseNoun1. A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise". 2. An organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader". 3. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enterprise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Enterprise A business, generally a large one. (1994-11-22). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Public Administration | The industrial arm of the International Seabed Authority. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | 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. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ENA | English | Enterprise Networking Association | Computer - (Banyan, VINES, user group, org.) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EnterpriseSynonyms: endeavor (n), endeavour (n), enterprisingness (n), go-ahead (n), initiative (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery. |
Pursuit | Noun: pursuit; pursuing; Verb: prosecution; pursuance; enterprise; (undertaking); business; adventure; (essay); quest; (search); scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt. |
Undertaking | Noun: undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement; (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand; (business ); move; first move; (beginning). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Enterprise |
| English words defined with "enterprise": commercial enterprise ♦ employee-owned enterprise ♦ illegitimate enterprise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enterprise": affiliated enterprise ♦ Enterprise Application Integration, enterprise dominating the market, enterprise having a dominant position in the market, Enterprise JavaBeans, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Systems CONnectivity ♦ Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, joint enterprise ♦ local unit of the enterprise ♦ market dominating enterprise, market-dominating enterprise ♦ secondary railway enterprise ♦ urban road passenger enterprise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "enterprise": Entrepreneur ♦ impresario. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Free to roam the high seas of enterprise as the buccaneers of our broadcasting future! (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) Even if this was not a law, which it is, I'm afraid I would have a lot of difficulty endorsing an enterprise which is as fraught with genuine peril as I believe this one to be. Besides the liquor and the drugs which always seem to accompany such an event the thing that distresses me even more, Ren, is the spiritual corruption that can be involved. (Footloose; writing credit: Dean Pitchford) There was also some normal stuff, razor scooters, pictures of the vulcan lady from Enterprise. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise.. (Elmer Gantry; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Sinclair Lewis) I'm Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kaptajn Carlsens kamp for Flying Enterprise (1952) Free Enterprise (1948) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Haise Commands First Enterprise Test Flights.Credit: NASA. |  | Space Shuttle Enterprise Lifted into Dynamic Test Stand.Credit: NASA. |
 | U. S. ENTERPRISE and the SEATTLE ENTERPRISE tied up at Dutch Harbor.Credit: Fisheries. |  | The BRISTOL ENTERPRISE and the YELLOWFIN.Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Irrigation Waterway near Enterprise,Oregon.Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | Wier in stream outside Enterprise, Oregon.Credit: Gary Wilson. |
 | Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga and Soryu in the morning of 4 June 1942. The diorama was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. It is therefore somewhat inaccurate in scope and detail. This angle of view depicts Soryu (attacked by Yorktown aircraft) in the middle distance, with Kaga and Akagi (both attacked by Enterprise aircraft) as the closer two burning ships.Credit: NAVY. |  | A Japanese bomb exploding on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6), just aft of the island, on 24 August 1942. Note: According to the original photo caption, this explosion killed the photographer, Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Robert F. Read. However, Morison's "History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II" (volume 5, page 97) states that Read was killed by the bomb that had earlier hit the after starboard 5"/38 gun gallery, which can be seen burning in the upper left. Morison further states that the bomb seen here exploded with a low order detonation, inflicting only minor damage.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Free enterprise versus National Farmers Union.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Full production and full employment under our democratic system of private enterprise / Michael Lenson.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. |
Cardinal De Richelieu | Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. |
Friedrich Schlegel | In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. |
Hafiz | On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. |
Henry David Thoreau | Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
| Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. | |
Publilius Syrus | In every enterprise consider where you would come out. |
W. S. Gilbert | In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting. |
William Lloyd Garrison | The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Members of the League agree that the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war is open to grave objections. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | This faith, more than anything else, steals the pith and availability out of whatever enterprise he may dream of undertaking. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Decision making about home monitoring is a collaborative enterprise. (references) | |
Business | As an enterprise, few companies in the world dominate an industry, as does KEPCO. (references) | |
Another area, one in which Oracle specializes, is customization of enterprise systems. (references) | ||
In the free zones, foreigners may own up to 100 percent of the equity in an enterprise. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | All EPRDF publications are printed at the party-run Mega Publishing Enterprise. (references) |
Barbados | Although CBC is a state enterprise, it regularly reported views opposing government policies. (references) | |
Germany | Government authorities contend that Scientology is not a religion but an economic enterprise and therefore at times have sought to deregister Scientology organizations previously registered as nonprofit associations and require them to register as commercial enterprises. (references) | |
Economic History | Burundi | Coffee is the largest state-owned enterprise. (references) |
Romania | It emphasizes enterprise restructuring and job preservation. (references) | |
Jamaica | The second, involves a conch harvesting and processing enterprise. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sweden | The party wants an economy based on free enterprise, competition and widespread ownership. (references) |
Pakistan | Both parties have a centrist orientation and support private enterprise and the free market. (references) | |
Netherlands | The Liberal party is a strong advocate of free enterprise and restricted government intervention. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Sub-project of Ukraine Enterprise Support Facility. (references) |
Haiti | Haiti does not presently have any duty-free enterprise zones or free ports. (references) | |
Georgia | A license can be issued to any locally registered enterprise, firm, or individual. (references) | |
Travel | Chile | Business operations develop in a climate of free enterprise and free trade. (references) |
Nepal | Endorsement by a recognized foreign industrial enterprise is one means of accomplishing this. (references) | |
Ireland | U.S. citizens planning to work in the country must first obtain a work permit from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. (references) | |
Women | Greece | To ameliorate the situation, the GSES established two regional employment offices for women in Thessaloniki and Patras in 2000. It also continued to provide vocational training programs for unemployed women and programs to reinforce entrepreneurship, subsidies to women for setting up an enterprise, information and counseling to unemployed women, and it created childcare facilities to assist unemployed women to attend training courses and look for a job. (references) |
Worker Rights | Lithuania | Wage decisions are made mostly at the enterprise level. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Plant or enterprise committee members are elected individually. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Senator Carl Levin | Enron was a deceptive enterprise. Whether or not it's criminal or not is going to be left to a prosecutor or a Justice Department investigation and prosecution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The expeditions which have been completed were carried on under the authority and at the expense of the United States by the militia of Kentucky, whose enterprise, intrepidity, and good conduct are entitled of peculiar commendation. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | All experience proves that oppressive debt is the bane of enterprise, and it should be the care of a republic not to exert a grinding power over misfortune and poverty. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | While our peacetime prosperity will be based on the private enterprise system, Government can and must assist in many ways. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Working together, private enterprise and government must press forward with the task of providing homes and shops, parks and hospitals, and all the other necessary parts of a flourishing community where our people can come to live the good life. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | In Latin America, our relations have taken on a new maturity and a sense of common enterprise. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | For this vision to come true, we must sacrifice, but this national commitment will be an exciting enterprise that will unify our people. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Some will say our mission is to save free enterprise. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience, and technology our spirit and enterprise against anyone. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | By the courage and by the enterprise of the American people, this great nation will prosper. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Enterprise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "Enterprise" is used about 4,217 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.36% | 4,190 | 2,349 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.64% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,217 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | Shenzhen Benelux Enterprise Company Limited | Hong Kong | China Pharmaceutical Enterprise and Investment Corporation Limited |
| Japan | Kokura Enterprise Co., Ltd. | Malaysia | Hua Joo Seng Enterprise Berhad |
| Singapore | Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd | South Korea | Dongwha Enterprise |
| Taiwan | Feng Tay Enterprise Co Ltd | United Kingdom | Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust Plc. |
| USA | Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Enterprise, AL (city, FIPS 24184) 2. Enterprise, KS (city, FIPS 21425) 3. Enterprise, LA 4. Enterprise, MS (town, FIPS 22580) 5. Enterprise, NV (CDP, FIPS 23770) 6. Enterprise, OR (city, FIPS 23500) 7. Enterprise, UT (city, FIPS 23420) 8. Enterprise, WV (CDP, FIPS 25516) |
Expressions using "enterprise": affiliated enterprise ♦ business enterprise ♦ commercial enterprise ♦ corporate enterprise ♦ enterprise Application Integration ♦ enterprise dominating the market ♦ enterprise having a dominant position in the market ♦ enterprise JavaBeans ♦ enterprise Resource Planning ♦ enterprise resources ♦ enterprise system ♦ enterprise Systems CONnectivity ♦ enterprise zone ♦ free enterprise ♦ free enterprise economy ♦ have a stake in an enterprise ♦ illegitimate enterprise ♦ industral enterprise ♦ industrial enterprise ♦ inland waterways transport enterprise turnover ♦ inland waterways transport enterprise value added ♦ Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise ♦ IWT enterprise turnover ♦ IWT enterprise value added ♦ joint enterprise ♦ local unit of the enterprise ♦ market dominating enterprise ♦ Mount Enterprise ♦ multinational enterprise ♦ National Enterprise Campaign ♦ New Enterprise ♦ private enterprise ♦ R&D researchers in the business enterprise sector at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the business enterprise sector at a given point in time ♦ railway enterprise costs ♦ registration of enterprise message ♦ road transport enterprise costs ♦ road transport enterprise turnover ♦ Scottish Enterprise ♦ sea transport enterprise costs ♦ sea transport enterprise revenues ♦ sea transport enterprise value added ♦ secondary railway enterprise ♦ South East Enterprise Development ♦ urban road passenger enterprise. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "enterprise": enterprise-based, enterprise-centred, enterprise-generating, enterprise-groups, enterprise-led, enterprise-level, enterprise-related, Enterprise-router-switch, enterprise-scale, enterprise-specific, enterprise-style, enterprise-wide, enterprise-with, enterprise-zone. | |
Ending with "enterprise": inter-enterprise, Mini-enterprise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "enterprise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | onderneming, bedryf (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, certificate, diploma, do, document, handicraft, keep, make, observe, occupation, perform, profession, trade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sipërmarrje (project, undertaking, venture), ndërmarrje (development, establishment, project, undertaking, venture, work), iniciativë (gumption, initiative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مغامرة (adventure, adventurousness, escapade, flier, flyer, foolhardiness, gamble, hazard, recklessness, risk, riskiness, throw, venture), مشروع (design, enacted, idea, legislated, licit, plan, project, schema, scheme, undertaking, venture), حب المغامرة, جرأة (boldness, bravery, courage, daring, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, stoutness, undauntedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смелост (audacity, boldness, bravery, courage, daring, gallantry, hardihood, hardiness, manliness, pluck, sand, spirit, valor, valour), начинание (initiative, undertaking), предприемчивост (adventurousness, drive, go, go ahead, gumption, initiative, push), инициатива (initiative, lead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 事業 (cause, plant, undertaking), 企業 (company, firm), 企业 (Businesses, entrepreneurial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závod (establishment, race), podnikavost (drive, push), podnik (business, company, concern, establishment, factory, firing, gala, joint, office, operation), iniciativa (initiative), firma (business, company, establishment, firing, firm, house, sign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | virksomhed (activity, business establishment, establishment, industry, local unit, local unit of the enterprise, operation, running). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderneming (company, firm, industry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | entrepreno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | tiltak (operation, surgical operation), fyritøka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبادرت بکاری کردن , تشکیلات اقتصادی , سرمایه گذاری (Investiture, Investment), عمل تهورامیز, امرخطیر, اقدام مهم (Expediency), اقدام کردن (Launch, Proceed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yritys (attempt, business establishment, company, effort, endeavour, establishment, firm, trial, undertaking), yritteliäisyys, terhakkuus (briskness, spirit), aloitekykyisyys (initiative), aloitekyky (initiative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entreprise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | bedriuw. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unternehmung (activity, operation, undertaking, venture), unternehmungsgeist (initiative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιχείρηση (business, company, firm, industry, operation, operator, phase of the work, proposition, trader, undertaking, user, venture, work step). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפעל (deed, project, undertaking, venture, work), יוזמ" (initiative), יזמ" (initiative, resourcefulness), תעוז" (fearlessness, prowess, temerity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vállalkozás (expedience, expediency, proposition, task, undertaking, venture), vállalat (business, business concern, business house, business undertaking, Co, company, corporation, express agency, house, officers of a society, show, undertaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perusahaan (company), maskapai (company), kegiatan (activity, ardor, drive, energy, liveliness, zeal), firma (company, firm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | impresa (achievement, boutique, business, company, concern, deed, establishment, expedition, exploit, feat, firm, industry, job, motto, shop, trade, undertaking, venture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 企業 (undertaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きぎょう (promotion of enterprise, starting a business, undertaking, weaving or textile industry), し"しゅ (new brew of sake, new species, new variety, sacred wine or sake, sake offered to the gods), エンタープライズ , じぎょう (business, geographical features, industry, operations, project, terrain, topography), いきぎょう (large company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기업 (Corporation, entrepreneurial, undertaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treealys (assertiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | foretaksomhet, foretagende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enterpriseay empresa (business, firm, industry, undertaking). (various references) spirit întreprinzãtor, promptitudine (dispatch, expedience, expediency, expedition, forwardness, promptitude, readiness), cutezanţã (boldness, daring, derring-do, intrepidity), antreprizã (company, contract, scheme), afacere (affair, affairs, bargain, business, business deal, case, commerce, concern, deal, dealings, go, job, matter, palaver, pennyworth, percentage, show, speculation, tasks, trade, transaction, undertaking), acţiune curajoasã, întreprindere (company, concern, factory, industry, undertaking). (various references) предприятие (businesses, concern, contract, job, proposition, undertaking). (various references) preduzimljivost, preduzeće (concern, firm). (various references) negocio (bargain, biz, business, commerce, deal, occasion, show, trade, transaction), empresa (business, car dealership, company, concern, employer, employment, enterpriser, entrepreneur, firm, gamble, industry, proposition, task, undertaking, venture). (various references) kampuni. (various references) företagsamhet (initiative), företag (business, companies, company, concern, corporation, enterprises, firm, firms, operation, outfit, undertaking, venture). (various references) โครงการที่เสี่ยง, บริษัท, ความกล้าไ"้กล้าเสีย. (various references) teşebbüs (approach, attempt, bid, fist, venture), kuruluş (being set-up, body, concern, establishment, foundation, institute, institution, organ, promotional, set up, shop), girişkenlik (gumption, initiative, sociability), girişim (approach, attempt, bid, effort, essay, fist, go, initiative, interference, ploy, shot, show, step, trial, undertaking, venture), cesaret (audacity, bear up, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, grit, gumption, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, nerve, pecker, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, ticker, valiantness, valor, valour), atılganlık (dare devilry, dare deviltry, dash, hardihood, hardiness, venturesomeness), atılım (advance, foray, leap), angajman. (various references) справа (act, affair, biz, brief, business, case, cause, deed, discipline, employ, nevermind, point, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction), підпри"мство (outfit), діловитість. (various references) việc l m khó khăn, hãng (agency, firm). (various references) anturiaeth (adventure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coepto, coeptum, commissum, expeditio, inceptum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 5, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Diallassonta boulaV panourgwn kai ou mh poihsousin ai ceireV autwn alhqeV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui dissipat cogitationes malignorum ne possint implere manus eorum quod coeperant |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That scatereth the thoytis of euele men, that ther hondis moun not fulfille that thei begunne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 5, Verse 12 |
| Albanian | I bën të kota synimet e dinakëve, dhe kështu duart e tyre nuk mund të realizojnë planet e tyre; |
| Cebuano | Siya magasumpo sa mga hunahuna sa malimbungon, Sa pagkaagi nga ang ilang mga kamot dili makahimo sa ilang mga bulohaton. |
| Chinese | 壞 狡 猾 人 的 計 謀 、 使 他 們 所 謀 的 、 不 得 成 就 。 |
| Croatian | redom ruši ono što lukavci smisle, što god zapoèeli, on im izjalovi. |
| Danish | han, som krydser de kloges Tanker, så de ikke virker noget, der varer, |
| Dutch | Hij maakt te niet de gedachten der arglistigen; dat hun handen niet een ding uitrichten. |
| Finnish | Hän tekee kavalain hankkeet tyhjiksi, niin ettei mikään menesty heidän kättensä alla, |
| French | Il anéantit les projets des hommes rusés, Et leurs mains ne peuvent les accomplir; |
| German | Er macht zunichte die Anschläge der Listigen, daß es ihre Hand nicht ausführen kann; |
| Haitian Creole | Li gate mannigèt bakoulou yo. Li pa janm kite yo rive fè sa yo te mete nan tèt yo. |
| Hungarian | A ki semmivé teszi a csalárdok gondolatait, hogy szándékukat kezeik véghez ne vihessék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Digagalkan-Nya rencana orang licik, dijebak dan ditangkap-Nya orang cerdik, sehingga semua usaha mereka tak jadi, dan mereka tertipu oleh akalnya sendiri. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Ia membatalkan maksud segala orang cerdik, sehingga niat mereka itu tiada sampai oleh tangannya; |
| Italian | rende vani i pensieri degli scaltri e le loro mani non ne compiono i disegni; |
| Maori | E haukoti nei i nga whakaaro o te hunga tinihanga, te taea e o ratou ringa ta ratou i mea ai. |
| Norwegian | som gjør de kløktiges råd til intet, så deres hender ikke får utrettet noget som varer, |
| Portuguese | Ele frustra as maquinações dos astutos, de modo que as suas mãos não possam levar coisa alguma a efeito. |
| Rumanian | El nimicewte planurile oamenilor vicleni, wi mknile lor nu pot sq le kmplineascq. |
| Russian | пО ТБЪТХЫБЕФ ЪБНЩУМЩ ЛПЧБТОЩИ, Й ТХЛЙ ЙИ ОЕ "ПЧЕТЫБАФ ТЕ" ТЙСФЙС. |
| Swedish | Han är den som gör de klokas anslag om intet, så att deras händer intet uträtta med förnuft; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enterprise": enterpriser, enterprisers, enterprises. (additional references) | |
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"Enterprise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centerprise, Centreprise, enterpise, Enterpprise, enterprice, enterprisa, enterprisal, enterprised, Enterprize, entrepris, entreprise, entrerprise, interprise. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enterprise" (pronounced e"nterprī'z or e"nerprī'z) |
| 3 | -r ī' z | outcries, sunrise. |
| 3 | -r ī' z | outcries, sunrise. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: presenter, reentries, repenters, represent, reserpine. | |
-2 letters: enterers, eternise, inserter, pesterer, preeners, prerinse, preteens, pretense, printers, reenters, reinsert, reinters, rentiers, repenter, repiners, reprints, retirees, ripeners, sprinter, teensier, terpenes, terreens, terrenes, terrines. | |
-3 letters: eeriest, enterer, entires, entrees, entries, epeeist, erepsin, eserine, peeries, penster, perries, pestier, preener, present, prester, preteen, printer, prisere, pterins, reenter, reinter, renters. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: enterpriser, enterprises, intersperse, terrepleins. | |
+2 letters: enterprisers, intercepters, interpreters, interspersed, intersperses, misrepresent, peregrinates, reinterprets, representing, teleprinters. | |
+3 letters: experimenters, interpleaders, misrepresents, perseverating, perseveration, predetermines, preinterviews, redemptioners. | |
+4 letters: hypersecretion, interpermeates, misinterpreted, misrepresented, peremptoriness, perseverations, postretirement, predeterminers, preexperiments, prefigurements, preregistering, preretirements, representation, representative. | |
+5 letters: hyperexcretions, hypersecretions, interoperatives, interpenetrates, misrepresenting, prepresidential, representations, representatives, temporarinesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 65 72 70 72 69 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - . .-. .--. .-. .. ... . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t e r p r i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0070 0072 0069 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39808671848284758571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Cities | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Orthography 28. Bibliography |
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