Meanings
noununenterprise (uncountable)
- uncountableLack of enterprise.
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 6141 more example
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
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