Definition of "enterprise" []

• An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk. (noun)
• A business organization. (noun)
• Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit: Private enterprise is basic to capitalism. (noun)
• Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative: "Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs” ( Henry David Thoreau). (noun)

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• "The term "enterprise risk" refers to nontraditional ventures, such as when an issuer backs the debt or operations of power plants, hospitals or nursing homes, the report said."
• "He is correct in the need to achieve balance, but this is only relevant to those shops who use the term enterprise architecture to describe the practice of building ivory towers."
• "We're using the term enterprise cloud to mean an extension of data center resources into the cloud with the same security, audit, and management/administrative components that are best practices within the enterprise."