noun
1.
Synonyms: adventure , emprise, exploit, feat, gest, venture
Related Word: attempt, effort, endeavor, striving, struggle; campaign, cause, project, pursuit, task, undertaking; deed
2.
Synonyms: project 2, undertaking
Related Word: speculation
3.
a unit of economic or business organization or activity
an economy encouraging the expansion of small, privately owned enterprises
Synonyms: business, company, concern, establishment, firm, house, outfit
Related Word: interest; organization; corporation; industry
4.
readiness to attempt or engage in what requires energy or daring
complained about his brother's lack of enterprise
Synonyms: ambition, drive, get-up-and-go, initiative, push; compare vigor 2
Related Word: ambitiousness, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, ||hustle, vigor; boldness, courage, daring, venturesomeness; inventiveness, self-reliance
Contrasted words: languor, lethargy; indolence, laziness, sloth; apathy, inertia