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enterprised

enterprised is the simple past and past participle of enterprise.

Meaning of enterprise

Verb

enterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)

  1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
    • Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow[…], with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]
  2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
    • The business must be enterprised this night.1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To put up or house; to entertain.
    • Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprize.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14

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Questions about enterprised

What is enterprised the simple past and past participle of?
Enterprised is the simple past and past participle of enterprise.

Words near enterprised in the dictionary

  1. enterprise service buses
  2. enterprise union
  3. enterprise unions
  4. enterprise value
  5. enterprise values
  6. enterprised
  7. enterpriseless
  8. enterpriser
  9. enterprisers
  10. enterprises
  11. enterprisewide

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