ENTERPRISE in a Sentence

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1. An enterprise should encourage innovation.
2. The Act will encourage private enterprise.
3. Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.
4. They are determined to carry forward the enterprise.
5. Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTERPRISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enterprise
 n.  organization created for business ventures, especially one that will earn money
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  The effect of this was to render easy any enterprise in which the senate or great men of Rome thought fit to engage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI.
2  Again, at the siege of Veii, we find the Roman commanders making use of religion to keep the minds of their men well disposed towards that enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
3  ; thinking that were he to succeed in getting these others to take part with him, his enterprise would be easier.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII.
4  The faintest sound, as of the cackling of the geese in the Capitol, the least departure from some ordinary routine, the most trifling mistake or error, mars the whole enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
5  In compliance with which advice he went on this new enterprise with a vast army.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
6  In the beginning of his reign he attacked Granada, and this enterprise was the foundation of his dominions.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...
7  Consider his first enterprise against Bologna, Messer Giovanni Bentivogli being still alive.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV — WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AN...
8  Finally, there are the varying forms of religious enterprise, of moral teaching and benevolent endeavor.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
10  The inception of this noble enterprise was his, and he deserves high credit for it.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
11  His was the enthusiasm and enterprise which made its steady progress possible and established in the institution its present high standard of accomplishment.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
12  This farm which he had the honour to control, he added, was a co-operative enterprise.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
13  Marry, if thou must needs know," said De Bracy, "it was the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert that shaped out the enterprise, which the adventure of the men of Benjamin suggested to me.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Hear me, and I will tell thee of an enterprise, in which, if thou be'st really that which thou seemest, thou mayst take an honourable part.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  Of them all, perhaps, De Bracy least regretted the interruption; for his conference with the Lady Rowena had arrived at a point, where he found it equally difficult to prosecute or to resign his enterprise.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The programme is a joint enterprise with the National Business School.
2  They are determined to carry forward the enterprise.
3  Don't forget this is a commercial enterprise - we're here to make money.
4  The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture.
5  We need someone with enterprise and imagination to design a marketing strategy.
6  The Act will encourage private enterprise.
7  An enterprise should encourage innovation.
8  Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.
9  The music festival is a new enterprise which we hope will become an annual event.
10  The team leader will be the most important factor in this difficult enterprise.
11  I believe that if an act wants to run a fan club, it should be a service rather than a profit-making enterprise.
12  Free enterprise, he argued, was compatible with Russian values and traditions.
13  Speaking generally, the space enterprise has served astronomy well.
14  Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault.
15  Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.