BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does business enterprise mean? 

• BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (noun)
  The noun BUSINESS ENTERPRISE has 1 sense:

1. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

  Familiarity information: BUSINESS ENTERPRISE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise

Context example:

computers are now widely used in business

Hypernyms ("business enterprise" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Meronyms (parts of "business enterprise"):

business activity; commercial activity (activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise)

Domain member category:

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

intangible ((of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value)

capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))

copartner (a joint partner (as in a business enterprise))

bankroll; roll (a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.))

doldrums; stagnancy; stagnation (a state of inactivity (in business or art etc))

privatise; privatize (change from governmental to private control or ownership)

dull; slow; sluggish ((of business) not active or brisk)

hostile (unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business))

tangible ((of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value)

chain ((business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership)

business; business sector (business concerns collectively)

business people; businesspeople (people who transact business (especially business executives))

celluloid; cinema; film (a medium that disseminates moving pictures)

astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness (intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings))

gambling den; gambling hell; gambling house; gaming house (a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business))

establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)

administration; disposal (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))

overcapitalisation; overcapitalization ((business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants))

operation (the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.))

business (the volume of commercial activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "business enterprise"):

discount business (the business of selling merchandise at a discount)

venture (a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit)

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

building; construction (the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones)

agribusiness; agriculture; factory farm (a large-scale farming enterprise)

packaging (the business of packing)

printing (the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution)

publication; publishing (the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution)

advertising; publicizing (the business of drawing public attention to goods and services)

real-estate business (the business of selling real estate)

tourism; touristry (the business of providing services to tourists)

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

employee-owned business; employee-owned enterprise (a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it)

field; field of operation; line of business (a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

industry; manufacture (the organized action of making of goods and services for sale)

storage (the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials)

butchering; butchery (the business of a butcher)

fishing (the occupation of catching fish for a living)

Holonyms ("business enterprise" is a part of...):

market; market place; marketplace (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

 Context examples 

A business enterprise entered into for profit which is owned by more than one person, each of whom is a "partner."

(Partnership, NCI Thesaurus)