How to Use enterprise in a Sentence

enterprise

noun
Definition of enterprisenext
Synonyms for enterprisenext
  • He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.
  • Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.
  • When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise.
  • Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.
  • Stopping to peel off one’s pants could derail the whole enterprise.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Put on the debt and is has an enterprise value of $18 billion.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 July 2024
  • As the sun and Uranus align, thinking outside the box takes a creative enterprise to new heights.
    — USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • Microsoft, of course, provides all of that and more to its massive base of enterprise customers.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 20 May 2024
  • Harrop refers to the website as a business and his primary commercial enterprise.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 22 May 2024
  • At the same time, college sports have become an increasingly national enterprise.
    — Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • But Apple doesn’t have anywhere near as large a footprint in enterprise services as Microsoft.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • Bloomberg reports that this is symptomatic of a general pullback in enterprise IT spending.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • Who cares about creating $10 billion of enterprise value for various companies?
    — Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
  • This is a for-profit enterprise that does not rely on government subsidies, according to McGrory.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The stench of blackmail hangs over the whole enterprise.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
  • And the way to do that was to establish a new form of enterprise.
    — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • That kind of control is at the heart of the Amazon enterprise.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • As the sun set beyond the pool deck, Rosero laid out his enterprise for me.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • There will still be a huge market for this type of enterprise in the Biden era.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Stern notched $300 in sales the first hour his enterprise was up and running.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
  • This has made a full-time role on the show a truly high-stakes enterprise.
    — Kirthana Ramisetti, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
  • It wasn't supposed to come to this, but the entire enterprise had been poorly planned from the start.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The blame game, in this case, isn’t easy to play; pass protection is a 12-man enterprise.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Take a look at this entire enterprise from her point of view.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The big boss might be one bad apple, but the whole enterprise is an apple pie.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Then, the fickle weather gods must smile on the enterprise.
    — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The whole enterprise was swept off the public markets and into their hands.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • The fun, when tied to a dollar sign, gives a gimmicky quality to the whole enterprise.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021

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