What does free enterprise mean?

Definitions for free enterprise
free enter·prise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. market economy, free enterprise, private enterprise, laissez-faire economyadjective

    an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices

  2. competitive, free-enterprise(a), private-enterprise(a)adjective

    subscribing to capitalistic competition

GCIDE

  1. free enterprisenoun

    The conduct of business according to the principles of the free enterprise doctrine; the conduct of economic activity without governmental interference.

Wiktionary

  1. free enterprisenoun

    An economic system of buisness governed by the laws of supply and demand with minimal goverment interference, regulation, or subsidy

Wikidata

  1. Free Enterprise

    Free Enterprise is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Eric McCormack and Rafer Weigel, and featuring William Shatner, directed by Robert Meyer Burnett and written by Mark A. Altman and Burnett.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of free enterprise in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of free enterprise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of free enterprise in a Sentence

  1. United States:

    The United States Government and Department of Commerce can not and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China, this action will ensure that our technologies, fostered in an environment of individual liberty and free enterprise, are not used to repress defenseless minority populations.

  2. David Cockfield:

    China's probably going to have a 5 or 6 percent growth rate. It's a managed economy. It's not your free enterprise economy, and they will get their growth one way or another, i just don't see a huge impact. It's too far away ... It's probably wise on their part to do that if they want to keep (their economic growth) at 5 or 6 percent.

  3. Marvin Stone:

    We both had farm backgrounds. We both were free enterprise people and we had similar goals in life, and we were both in teaching, we were just kind of together in our concepts of what to do and what direction to go and so forth. To that end, the couple cited their faith in one another as the fuel for both good times and bad.

  4. Thomas A. Saunders III:

    Heritage is a permanent policy research institution fighting for conservative ideas, we remain committed … to the principles that have made America great : free enterprise ; limited government ; individual freedom ; traditional American values ; and a strong national defense.

  5. William O. Douglas:

    One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

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