vast enterprise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandenterprise
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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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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(Definition ofvastandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is avastenterprisecovering aspects of explosives, propellant and primer production.
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Any potential purchaser has to know what the difficulties are and how they will be solved before embarking on such avastenterprise.
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This has placed the entire project in a serious position, as receipts are not sufficient to cover the overhead burdens of such avastenterprise.
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That was largely owing to our orders in thisvastenterprisein the world of steel.
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Yet there is avastenterprise, which is completely computerised, which decides on the type of filling that everyone has.
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However, when we talk of radio news in a local station we do not refer to anyvastenterprise.
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I want to see five years' grace before we are totally committed to thisvastenterprise.
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This situation has developed into avastenterprise, with over 1,600 applications a year and about 100 public hearings.
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There is avastenterprisedemanding an enormous supply of electricity which the local undertaker cannot fulfil.
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Thisvastenterprise, which we sometimes take for granted, is bound to creak and rumble a bit from time to time.
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The coal industry is avastenterprise, providing employment for over 350,000 people, with a capital value of £750 million and a turnover of over £800 million.
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Of course, we recognise that the building of a new town is avastenterprise.
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Therefore, what the industry is being threatened with is not only the takeover of its home-based operations but the risk to which avastenterpriseoverseas will be subject.
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All of us outside the health service feel that it is such avastenterprisethat it is very difficult for us to come to grips with its performance.
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It is obvious that such avastenterprisewith nearly 1,000 million people within it must, if it succeeds, have profound consequences for the world as a whole.
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I wish thisvastenterprisewell.
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Into that office block was going a constant stream of information from every part of thisvastenterprisefrom the board room and so on.
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Great hydroponic plantations are required to feed the workers who keep thisvastenterprisegoing.
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He did not bring this labor to a close until, fifty-six years later, he published the forty-sixth and crowning volume of hisvastenterprise.
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I have certain sympathy with the difficulties of selling off vast enterprises under forced conditions.
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