verb
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To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
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To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
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To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
noun
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The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.
adjective
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Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
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Very able and ingenious in business dealings.
Examples of enterprising in a Sentence
Its enterprising ambition was encouraged by taking fresh country north and south.
Valiant, enterprising, pious as he was, all these fine qualities were ruined by a reckless good nature which never thought of the morrow.
Yet in spite of these disabilities there are amongst the Russian Jews many enterprising contractors, skilful doctors, and successful lawyers and scientists.
They are skilled artisans, bankers and merchants, and are remarkable for their industry, their quick intelligence, their aptitude for business, and for that enterprising spirit which led their ancestors, in Roman times, to trade with Scythia, China and India.
A hardy and enterprising race of men had sprung from this mixture, and supplies being sent by sea from Holland.
This is a great opportunity for the enterprising youth.
All these factors make businesses more enterprising and popular.
The company is innovative and enterprising, and the world of mouth has been quite positive.
To build a truly enterprising culture in Britain we must open up enterprise to all.
For a time Bela was equally fortunate in the north-west,where the ambitious and enterprising Piemyslidae had erected a new Bohemian empire which absorbed the territories of the old Babenbergers and was very menacing to Hungary.
Chemulpo under the eyes of the Russian cruiser " Variag," and next day he attacked and destroyed the Variag " and some smaller war-vessels in the harbour, and the rest of the 1st Army (General Kuroki) was gradually brought over during February and March, in spite of an unbeaten and, under Makarov's regime, an enterprising hostile navy.
We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter.
He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
Sunglass Hut was started in 1971 by an enterprising optometrist who felt that people in Miami could benefit from eyewear that would protect them from the blazing Florida sun.
Some enterprising designer found that little "arms" could be attached to a costume, so that once a dog's front legs were inside, it looked like a little person.
Enterprising business people bought the toys and are now selling them at a huge profit.
As consumers become more interested in finding the best deals online, enterprising companies have responded by creating websites that help people quickly locate the coupon codes they need.
The item started out as an autographic printer, but an enterprising fellow named Sam O'Reilly figured out the machine could be modified to deliver ink into skin, and the tattoo machine was born.
Some free karaoke music downloads are songs that some enterprising computer user has managed to delete the vocal track from and are not "official" karaoke versions.
One enterprising site, Project GIR was in the developmental stages of a functioning GIR robot at one time, but there seems to be little recent activity.
Facebook Survey Scams - Enterprising scammers find search terms that produce pages and pages of results on search engines and turn them into surveys on Facebook.
In 1804 Paulus Hook, containing 117 acres and having about 15 inhabitants, passed into the possession of three enterprising New York lawyers, who laid it out as a town and formed an association for its government, which was incorporated as the "associates of the Jersey company."
The father was secretary in one of the numerous factories erected on the southern and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean by the warlike and enterprising merchants of Pisa.
Thanks to the impenetrability of their fastnesses, they preserved their original savagery longer than any of their neighbours, and this savagery was coupled with a valour so tenacious and enterprising as to make them formidable to all who dwelt near them.
In 1800, Osai Tutu Quamina, an enterprising and ambitious man, who appears early to have formed the desire of opening a communication with white nations, became king.
In England, at least, the enterprising traders and bankers who found their way to the West, from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though they certainly did not all come from Lombardy, bore the name of Lombards.
His son, Dirk IV., was one of the most enterprising of his warlike and strenuous race.
We've got some very enterprising plans in place which I am sure will make quite an impact down here.
Or anything particularly enterprising & up-to-date and doable, for that matter.. too bad.
Good Company is the independent magazine for " socially enterprising people " in Scotland.
He's also turning out to be quite enterprising.
The scheme aims to help young people from 14 to 30 become more enterprising.
Let's face it; you don't get more enterprising than the Romans!
They should have a good self-image, good self-discipline, and be good problem-solvers, enterprising, adaptable and employable.
Such a loss of social spirit makes any enterprising person choose either to get out or to become a troublemaker.
We thus see in the Scandinavian settlers in Gaul, after they had put on the outward garb of their adopted country, a people restless and enterprising above all others, adopting and spreading abroad all that they could make their own in their new land and everywhere else - a people in many ways highly gifted, greatly affecting and of Sicily modifying at the time every land in which they settled, but, wherever they settled, gradually losing themselves among the people of the land.
The brilliant and enterprising Christian Thomasius brought out periodically, in dialogue form, his Monatsgesprdche (1688-1690), written by himself in the vernacular, to defend his novel theories against the alarmed pedantry of Germany, and, together with Strahl, Buddeus and others, Observationes selectae ad rem litterariam spectantes (1700), written in Latin.
Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).
James beat six other regional finalists to scoop the accolade of London 's Most Enterprising Student, together with £ 400 in prize money.
An enterprising individual even made a montage of Benny Hinn performing faith healings to the song.
Fashion is an active market, and with enterprising and creative students flooding into design schools it's no surprise that a few years later each young designer wants to hit the market with his own concepts.
Balfour began almost a century ago in 1913, when the enterprising Lloyd Balfour saw a niche market developing as more and more young people chose to enter college and join fraternities and sororities.
The company's founder, Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman, was an enterprising young woman.
Its earliest trade was in the salt produced at Halle, and its enterprising inhabitants constructed roads and bridges to lighten the journey of the traders and travellers whose way led to the town.
The club features a team of sexy, enterprising young women who tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics.
Its proprietor, Maruyama Ryuhei, spared no expense to obtain news from all qerarters of tli world, and for the first time the Japanese public learned what stores of information may be found in the columns of a really enterprising journal.
At fifteen he was a man, resolute, spirited, enterprising, with the germs of many talents and virtues, but rough, reckless and very imperfectly educated.
These highlands, formerly known as the Raigarh Bichhia tract, remained desolate and neglected until 1866, when the district of Balaghat was formed, and the country opened to the industrious and enterprising peasantry of the Wainganga valley.
He was the son of a merchant, and was himself trained for the pursuits of commerce, in which, by his abilities and enterprising spirit, he attained a conspicuous position.
His grandfather was a man of ability, an enterprising merchant of London, one of the commissioners of customs under the Tory ministry during the last four years of Queen Anne, and, in the judgment of Lord Bolingbroke, as deeply versed in the " commerce and finances of England " as any man of his time.