enterprising

1. 1
   adjective

   Good at finding clever ways to make money or get ahead.

   Like someone who spots a chance to earn money and grabs it before anyone else.

   An enterprising student opened a small bakery to pay for school.

   She is so enterprising that she turned her hobby into a real business.

   Similarresourceful, entrepreneurial, ambitious, inventive, industrious

   Oppositeunenterprising, unambitious

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2. 2
   adjective

   Brave and bold when trying to do something hard.

   Like a kid who is first to jump off the high diving board.

   The enterprising hiker tried to climb the steep cliff alone.

   An enterprising young sailor steered the small boat through the storm.

   Similarbold, daring, adventurous, intrepid, venturesome

   Oppositetimid, unadventurous, cautious

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The work of starting and carrying out a plan, or anything people do on purpose.

   What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other.

   2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological DiscourseHere, enterprisings means activities, the things a person or group does.

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4. 4
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of enterprise. It is the -ing form of the verb.

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