Enterprising Meaning
/ˈɛntəˌrpraɪzɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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adjDisplaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
adjVery able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.
"It was now settled that every body was to be amused by her coarse jest and her odd expressions, and therefore everybody was amused. Moreover, there was another great secret of her popularity; all in her company luxuriated in a little complacent sense of their own superiority,—one of the most agreeable of the senses to indulge. Such was the enterprising individual whose saloon was to-night a representation of the Field of the Cloth of Gold."— 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 22:
verbpresent participle and gerund of enterprise
nounThe undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.
"What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other."— 2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse:
Sentence Examples
He is young and inexperienced, but quite enterprising.
Tom is an enterprising young man.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ young woman started her own company at age twenty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
An ____ student started a successful laundry business in the dormitory.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ young woman started her own company at age twenty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
An ____ student started a successful laundry business in the dormitory.