| private enterprise | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Compare public enterprise economic activity undertaken by private individuals or organizations under private ownership |
| 2. | another name for capitalism |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Business carried on for profit and not owned by the government; also, the system that discourages public ownership of business; the same as free enterprise. (See private sector.)