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free-enterprising

  • a word derived from free enterprise.
    free enterprise
    noun
    an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.

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By sticking to these rules and capitalizing on the fine points of international law, free-enterprising, free-trading Hans Isbrandtsen has become the biggest independent U.S. shipper.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all that it has profited from the ideas of Lord Keynes, the U.S. economy is still the world's most private and most free-enterprising.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps the ultimate irony is that occasional fake paper submitted to a free-enterprising faculty member who goes on to publish it as his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

These include the right wing of the old Congress Party, the free-enterprising pro-Western Swatantra, and the fast-growing Jana Sangh, which has a strong rural base in the northern Hindi-speaking states.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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