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unenterprise

unenterprise noun: lack of enterprise.

Noun

unenterprise (uncountable)

  1. Lack of enterprise.
    • The difficulty is less apparent in the case of a Company, but the one feature in the Sun which strikes us above all others, is that age has not brought unadaptability, nor prosperity unenterprise.1893, Francis Boyer Relton, An Account of the Fire Insurance Companies, page 298
    • Some of the others are a bit depreciated; they show marks of private unenterprise. Not so the Bank of England.1945, British Information Services, British Speeches of the Day, volume 3, page 614

Origin of unenterprise

un- + enterprise

Questions about unenterprise

What does unenterprise mean?
Unenterprise means lack of enterprise.
What part of speech is unenterprise?
Unenterprise is a noun.

Words near unenterprise in the dictionary

  1. unentanglers
  2. unentangles
  3. unentangling
  4. unenterable
  5. unentered
  6. unenterprise
  7. unenterprising
  8. unenterprisingly
  9. unenterprisingness
  10. unentertainable
  11. unentertained

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