business enterprise

1. 1.

   the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

   “computers are now widely used in business”

   Synonymscommercial enterprisebusiness

   Broadercommerce

   Narrowertourismfishingbutcherystorageindustryfieldemployee-owned enterprisefinancediscount businessreal-estate business

   Part ofmarket

   Partsbusiness activity

Questions about business enterprise

What does business enterprise mean?

business enterprise means "the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects".

What is another word for business enterprise?

Close synonyms include commercial enterprise, business. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is business enterprise a common word?

business enterprise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.