microenterprise

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noun

A very small business with five or fewer employees, or the business sector comprising these businesses.

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Meanings

nounmicroenterprise (countable and uncountable, plural microenterprises)

plural microenterprises

  1. countableuncountablebusinessA 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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
microbusiness

Origin

From micro- + enterprise.

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APA

microenterprise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microenterprise

MLA

“microenterprise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microenterprise. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microenterprise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microenterprise.

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