commercial enterprise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommercialandenterprise
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commercial
adjective
uk/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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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 ofcommercialandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcommercial enterprise
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Clearly the loss of space within the city, while not personally detrimental to the owner, evidently proved disastrous for hiscommercialenterprise.
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Vast industrial microcosms, and the centralization of production they enabled, became increasingly synonymous with successfulcommercialenterprise.
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On husband and wife partnerships incommercialenterprisesome very general assumptions do exist, but these are hardly ever tested with empirical research.
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What both aspects strongly imply is that at heart 'popular culture' is a verycommercialenterpriseindeed.
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Invariably, acommercialenterprisethat provides a service has high-energy demands.
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The aim of art is to ' ' throw into confusion the code which underliescommercialenterprise, industrial competition, the ' ' heroism ' ' of economic warfare.
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Thecommercialenterpriseproduced innumerable editions without much care for the basis of the text they were reproducing.
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Commercialenterpriseallowed the industrious to turn labour into wealth and wealth into grace.
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Bootlegging, on the other hand, is acommercialenterprise.
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Othelbald's toll charters, all of them issued to bishops and monastic communities, suggest the subsequent scale ofcommercialenterpriseamong the religious, who might even possess their own ships.
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He said that this was work not being done as acommercialenterpriseor for an immediate return.
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The next question is whether the scheme is a soundcommercialenterprise.
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I see it as a publicly fundedcommercialenterprisethat seeks returns with no demonstrable impact on poverty.
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That seems to me to be a very substantial increase in co-operativecommercialenterprise.
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Here we are building up a great new science, a great newcommercialenterprise.
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Nobody really expects a local authority to run a local park as a successfulcommercialenterprise.
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At least one board has acommercialenterprisewhile another board has no commercial adjunct.
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That cost could not be borne by the entrepreneur of that legitimatecommercialenterprise.
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We must also reach out to support the development of both social andcommercialenterprisewithin the most disadvantaged areas.
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That bears particularly heavily on the small business andcommercialenterprise.
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