free-enterprising
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a word derived from
free enterprise.
free enterprisenounan 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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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
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As free-enterprising businessmen, their hardheaded purpose was to make money.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Into office, with a parliamentary margin of 46 to 34, would come the free-enterprising National Party, led by kinetic, fast-talking Sydney George Holland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One airline financial officer calls the CAB'S free-enterprising Chairman Albert Kahn "an intellectual giant and a commercial idiot."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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