What does "enterprise" mean?

Enterprise: 2. Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. [R.] The business must be enterprised this night. Dryden. What would I not renounce or enterprise for you! T. Otway.
  2. 3.To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [Obs.] Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise. Spenser.
  3. 4.To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. [R.] Pope.

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