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enterprising

[en-ter-prahy-zing]

adjective

ready to undertake projects of importance or difficulty, or untried schemes; energetic in carrying out any undertaking: Business is in need of enterprising young people.

characterized by great imagination or initiative: an enterprising foreign policy.

Origin:
1565–75; enterprise + -ing²

Related forms

en·ter·pris·ing·ly, adverb

non·en·ter·pris·ing, adjective

un·en·ter·pris·ing, adjective

un·en·ter·pris·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. venturous, venturesome, resourceful, adventurous. See ambitious.

Antonyms
1. timid, cautious.

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Example Sentences

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Enterprising graduate students can and should go to these countries and immerse themselves in their changing politics.

News organisations in such places may be poor, but reporters are determined and enterprising.

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Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Enterprising graduate students can and should go to these countries and immerse themselves in their changing politics.

News organisations in such places may be poor, but reporters are determined and enterprising.

It wasn't long before this shocking technology was applied in the field by enterprising researchers.

Along the way, enterprising ships¿ captains engaged in private trading of their own, abusing company resources for personal gain.

Enterprising homeowners could create this for themselves and save even more.

Naturally, enterprising hackers are already routing around the perceived damage.

One enterprising student was coming by to collect old cell phones from recycling donations.

Migrants are usually enterprising people, who enrich their new countries as well as themselves.

Some other enterprising species can also work around dams in their habitats.

Enterprising companies would likely build small unmanned self-serve battery kiosks as well.

Enterprising eBay auctioneers are reselling the coupons that arrive as junk mail and litter the counter at the post office.

What a great to shut down an enterprising student by declaring his business illegal to use.

It has, for example, plentiful water resources that an enterprising government would find ways to develop.

Any enterprising criminal can do the math on this one.

And a few enterprising cities now have waste-to-energy technologies that extract methane from landfills for use as fuel.

Tray tables have been removed from the seats to preclude enterprising inmates from weaponizing them.

It shouldn't be urged on their less enterprising peers, either.

Dothraki may not prove as interesting as an enterprising researcher might hope.

But one enterprising researcher uses it to store the entire human genome.

Transactions such as these fuel the informal economy of a city bursting to the seams with an enterprising workforce.

Enterprising commanders figured out there were psychological advantages to the tiny plane.

Chinese companies are far more free spirited and enterprising than the article is crediting them for.

Enterprising families do take advantage of the policy.

It's hard to see the ice cubes for the bergsBut enterprising businessmen, seeing gold in.

But thanks to a pair of enterprising faculty members, a growing number of.

Another village has set up an enterprising share scheme to finance new oyster beds and skiffs to work them.

The problem of tele-vision has long been a favorite one with enterprising inventors.

It didn't take long for small enterprising regional theaters to seize a golden opportunity.

Now, a couple enterprising attendees have already listed the swag on eBay,.

Surely some enterprising design aficionado already has fantasies about feathering his breakfast nook.

Smart young scholars will also grasp how such enterprising behavior can help their.

Now a few enterprising engineers are looking to convert our restlessness into electricity.

Holman is treading a path well worn by enterprising outdoor enthusiasts who find profits in their own frustrations.

As you say, enterprising people find ways to make profits.

Courtney's more enterprising moves, fellow pharmacists say, involved chemotherapy drugs.

When the security forces cut the lights in one street, some enterprising residents managed somehow to bring them back on again.

Kruger, a mild-mannered, enterprising fast-food pioneer who sought to respond to a problem particular to his territory.

It must have taken him a lot of hard work and enterprising to get to the position he held.

But in this biomimetic age, it's not hard to imagine some enterprising industrial designer taking a bit too literally and saying,.

They run the gamut from cheerful to surly, enterprising to sluggish.

Open source computing depends on enterprising hackers being there provide an economic incentive against this kind of.

Consumer electronics startups are the new frontier for enterprising entrepreneurs.

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people".

Hopefully you haven't already loaned it to another enterprising sibling.

On the contrary, the monarchy is consistently enterprising.

And it wants some enterprising software designer to build it for the agency.

The more enterprising foodies of our group tried to decompose these flavors and settled on a blend of butterscotch and vanilla.

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World English Dictionary

enterprising (ˈɛntəˌpraɪzɪŋ)

—*adj*
	ready to embark on new ventures; full of boldness and initiative

'enterprisingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

enterprising

1610s, prp. adj. from enterprise.

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"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate."

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