Meaning

1 senses
  1. Enterprise owned by private owners, investors or shareholders

More definitions
  • an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

  2. This tax is applied to all private-sector enterprises.

    deDiese Steuer wird bei allen Privatunternehmen veranschlagt. — xtofu80

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: private enterprises

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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