COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commercial enterprise mean? 

• COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE (noun)
  The noun COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE has 2 senses:

1. an enterprise connected with commerce

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

  Familiarity information: COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enterprise connected with commerce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)

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

co-op; cooperative (a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners)

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Sense 2

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 ("commercial enterprise" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "commercial 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)

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

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)

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

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 "commercial enterprise"):

fishing (the occupation of catching fish for a living)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

 Context examples 

The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; the organized action of making of goods and services for sale.

(Industry, NCI Thesaurus)

An accident taking place on the site of a commercial enterprise.

(Industrial Accident, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who acts as a channel for communication with a commercial enterprise which produces substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

(Drug Company Contact, NCI Thesaurus)