private enterprise firm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivate,enterpriseandfirm
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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enterprise
noun
uk/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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firm
adjective
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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(Definition ofprivate,enterpriseandfirmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A privateenterprisefirm, competing for the same work in the same circumstances, will not.
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That is totally demoralising to the principle of enterprise which we want to see in every public and privateenterprisefirm.
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Eventually, a privateenterprisefirmwas persuaded to build it.
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I do not believe that any privateenterprisefirmwould be able to carry out the work to the extent desired.
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It is important to remember that a local authority is in a somewhat different position from that of a privateenterprisefirm.
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This is giving a small subsidy to a privateenterprisefirmcompeting with private enterprise firms in other countries which are getting a bigger subsidy.
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Are they eventually to be released for some privateenterprisefirmto try to establish a new business in the same buildings?
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I only wish that every other privateenterprisefirmconducted its business on the same tenets.
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An ordinary privateenterprisefirmwould be taken to court and prosecuted, but the monopoly of a nationalised industry allows that to happen.
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Our price was too high; we were undercut by the same privateenterprisefirmthat registered the complaint.
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It is a shining example of a highly profitable privateenterprisefirmwith large exports and a big domestic market and production in this country.
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In fact, this privateenterprisefirmmade it clear that it would have no further interest in the matter if that were done.
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It is happening in practically every small privateenterprisefirmthroughout the country.
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No one in his senses will allow that to happen in a privateenterprisefirm.
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I believe that it is practically impossible for any privateenterprisefirmto give such an undertaking.
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The lowest tender was from a privateenterprisefirmand the second lowest was from the direct labour department of the council.
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Incidentally, they are provided by a privateenterprisefirm.
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That hospital used to be cleaned by a privateenterprisefirm.
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However, if a privateenterprisefirminterested in brick manufacture proposed to build a brick works on exactly the same site, it would get a grant.
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What would be thought of the owner of a privateenterprisefirmwith bulging stocks who went to his bankers and asked to borrow more money?
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