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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

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  1. private-enterprise

    Private enterprise is a form of business organization that is owned and managed by private individuals or groups. These owners take on the risk of the business's success or failure, but they also reap the benefits or profits from the business. It is characterized by a free market system where businesses function on supply and demand mechanisms with minimal government intervention.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of private-enterprise in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of private-enterprise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of private-enterprise in a Sentence

  1. Paulo Cesar Silva:

    Given the support, Bombardier has been very aggressive, to the point of offering planes at prices below their production costs. That's what the numbers show, it causes a major distortion in the market. We're not competing with a private enterprise any more. We're competing with the government.

  2. Charles Krauthammer:

    His facts are wrong. Staples has said that the policy in place was instituted a decade ago, so it was not instituted as a way to get around Obamacare, but he makes it sound as if getting around a law, meaning responding to the incentives that are written into the law, is somehow unsavory. And he talks about that, it's the same way he talks about everything that's private enterprise.

  3. Kevin McCarthy:

    The President resorts are hotels that The President owns. People are traveling, White House's just like any other hotel, i don't know that that's different than anything else. Is White House different if I go and stay or eat at a Marriott here, or eat at President Donald Trump ? The President isn't asking me to. The President's competing in a private enterprise.

  4. Paulo Cesar Silva:

    It causes a major distortion in the market. We're not competing with a private enterprise any more. We're competing with the government.

  5. Sir Winston Churchill:

    Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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