{
    "term": "enterprise",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a company or business",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is in charge of an enterprise with a turnover of $26 billion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**state-owned/public enterprises**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The grant is available to small and medium-sized enterprises."
                },
                {
                    "text": "something that affects all the workers in the enterprise"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They plan to privatize over 100 state-owned enterprises."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "large-scale", "small"],
                "verb + enterprise": ["build", "create", "control"],
                "enterprise + verb": ["operate", "expand", "grow"],
                "preposition": ["in an enterprise", "within an enterprise"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a large project, especially one that is difficult",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Have you heard about his latest business enterprise?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **joint enterprise**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The music festival is a new enterprise which we hope will become an annual event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The programme is a joint enterprise with the National Business School."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team leader will be the most important factor in this difficult enterprise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are willing to undertake a new enterprise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the complex organization of a business enterprise"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "venture",
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "exciting", "ambitious"],
                "verb + enterprise": ["embark on", "start", "undertake"],
                "enterprise + verb": ["fail", "succeed"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the enterprise"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the development of businesses by the people of a country rather than by the government",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They provide grants to encourage enterprise in the region."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an enterprise culture *(= in which people are encouraged to develop small businesses)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to foster enterprise in these depressed areas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The culture of dependency was replaced by an enterprise culture."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["free", "private", "local"],
                "verb + enterprise": ["encourage", "promote"],
                "enterprise + noun": ["culture"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the ability to think of new projects and make them successful",
            "labels": "(approving)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a job in which enterprise is rewarded"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a man of enterprise"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many hotels are showing enterprise and imagination by staging special events."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I thought she showed great enterprise."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "initiative",
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great"],
                "verb + enterprise": ["show"],
                "phrases": ["a spirit of enterprise"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈentəpraɪz/",
                "audio": "en/enterprise/enterprise__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈentərpraɪz/",
                "audio": "en/enterprise/enterprise__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, ‘something undertaken’, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of entreprendre, based on Latin prendere, prehendere ‘to take’."
}