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.
Example Sentences
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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