Collocations withenterprise
These are words often used in combination withenterprise.
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agricultural enterprise
Furthermore, much of today's environmental disruption, loss of biodiversity, release of toxic substances, and climate change is traceable to humanity's environmentally incompetent, short-range-focused agricultural enterprise.
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artistic enterprise
The risk-taking necessary for artistic enterprise was becoming less common.
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capitalist enterprise
Corporate directors apparently succeeded in their efforts to maximise profits for their shareholders, fulfilling their primary responsibility as managers of a capitalist enterprise.
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collective enterprise
The moral capital ideal was thus an organic mix of dynamism, modernity, gesellschaft-values, paternalism, collective enterprise and humanity.
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colonial enterprise
On the one hand, it is a rupture in the fabric of tourism as a colonial enterprise, a project of modernity.
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commercial enterprise
Clearly the loss of space within the city, while not personally detrimental to the owner, evidently proved disastrous for his commercial enterprise.
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competitive enterprise
While social democratic governments use public institutions and programmes to promote markets, conservative governments privatise public institutions in order to model the forms of competitive enterprise they are promoting.
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cooperative enterprise
They now identify as workers in a cooperative enterprise distinct from the family.
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corporate enterprise
Her view that students need to be included in negotiations between family and school reflects an understanding of parent involvement as a corporate enterprise.
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criminal enterprise
Many young kids, knowingly or unknowingly, worked for some kind of criminal enterprise.
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enterprise architecture
This became one of the first known examples of enterprise architecture being explicitly mandated by a government body.
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enterprise initiative
How many of the messages of support have come from business consultancies which undoubtedly will be the prime beneficiaries of the enterprise initiative?
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enterprise software
The company specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems.
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enterprise system
British business had emerged from the war in offensive mood and meant to re-create a ' free ' private enterprise system at all costs.
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entire enterprise
Thus, the failure to consider a role for intonation and information structure in language acquisition is a serious flaw of the entire enterprise.
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industrial enterprise
Goldscheid proposed to organize capitalistic industrial enterprise in such a way that the worker would be able to realize his personal value in the fullest sense.
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innovative enterprise
I agree with the proposal aiming to create better conditions for start-ups and innovative enterprises to have access to private equity.
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joint enterprise
The structure and form of the celebrations sought to bind the city's political leaders together with local leaders in a joint enterprise.
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large enterprise
His recording label was not a large enterprise, but it held a prominent position in the urban folk revival environment of the 1950s and 1960s.
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large-scale enterprise
Thus originated the putting-out system, the first capitalistic, albeit decentralized, large-scale enterprise.
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manufacturing enterprise
For instance, concepts such as resources, people, machines, and plans will have direct applicability within a manufacturing enterprise model.
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medium-size enterprise
They are badly housed, set up their own one-man bands and compete with our small and medium-size enterprises.
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medium-sized enterprise
Big business, for its part, differed from small and medium-sized enterprise in its labour-capital factor ratios.
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missionary enterprise
Regrettably, this important historical contradiction in the missionary enterprise is not given a central part in the discussion.
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private enterprise firm
A private enterprise firm, competing for the same work in the same circumstances, will not.
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productive enterprise
Are we going forward to a situation in which private industry, profit-making industry and productive enterprise will be fully and properly rewarded?
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profit-making enterprise
It is already a commercial, profit-making enterprise, and it therefore sits uneasily and unnaturally within the statutory framework.
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profitable enterprise
In the initial phases, the company had no clear strategy, selecting any profitable enterprise.
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risky enterprise
Still, the complexity of the motivational foundation for discussion suggests that it is a risky enterprise that carries not only benefits but also potential costs.
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rural enterprise
Only in that way will we truly establish a rural enterprise culture.
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scientific enterprise
Commitment to the scientific enterprise requires that we not accept claims about constraint, exaptation, or spandrel in the absence of evidence.
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small and medium enterprise
However, this needs active guidance from state bodies in order to promote small and medium enterprise engagement, as well as mediate between the interest of capital and labour.
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small-scale enterprise
The pattern of small-scale enterprise remained common throughout the century.
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state enterprise
At present coverage is concentrated in state enterprise and only a minority of private sector workers are covered.
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state-owned enterprise
Production of the single consumption good is assumed to take place in either a state-owned enterprise or a private firm.
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successful enterprise
Liver transplantation was a difficult, less successful enterprise done in three centers, and only one center was doing heart transplants.
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township enterprise
In 1985 town and township enterprises earned about 4 billion in foreign currency.
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vast enterprise
This is a vast enterprise covering aspects of explosives, propellant and primer production.
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whole enterprise
Males capturing'female reproductive power' clearly is a'transgression' which explains why the whole enterprise is not only homologous to, but also the inverse of everyday life.
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