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microenterprises

microenterprises is the plural of microenterprise.

Meaning of microenterprise

Noun

microenterprise (countable and uncountable, plural microenterprises)

  1. A very small business with five or fewer employees, or the business sector comprising these businesses.
    • While the Inter-American bank concentrated most of its efforts during that time on lending to build Latin American infrastructure projects and heavy industries, Mr. Ortiz Mena also set up the bank’s first financing operations for microenterprise.2007 March 16, Elisabeth Malkin, “Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Minister in 1960s, Dies”, in New York Times

Questions about microenterprises

What is microenterprises the plural of?
Microenterprises is the plural of microenterprise.

Words near microenterprises in the dictionary

  1. microengines
  2. microengrave
  3. microengraved
  4. microengraving
  5. microenterprise
  6. microenterprises
  7. microentities
  8. microentity
  9. microentrepreneur
  10. microentrepreneurial
  11. microentrepreneurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microenterprises (page history and authors); microenterprise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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