noun enterprise.
2. beginning ·noun that which is begun; a rudiment or element.
3. beginning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of begin.
4. beginning ·noun that which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
5. beginning ·noun the act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.