Meaning

2 senses
  1. Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.

  2. Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.

    unternehmungslustig, unternehmerisch

    предприи́мчивыйpredpriímčivyj

More definitions
  • marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom is an enterprising young man.

    ruТом - предприимчивый молодой человек.

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  2. That was enterprising of you.

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  3. Are you enterprising?

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  4. Tom is quite enterprising.

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  5. He is young and inexperienced, but quite enterprising.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
very able and ingenious in business dealings:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
very able and ingenious in business dealings:

Forms

more enterprising, most enterprising
Comparativemore enterprising Lesson
Superlativemost enterprising Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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