private enterprise
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How to use private enterprise in a sentence
There are many private enterprises, including concert venues, gyms, workplaces, universities, that want to create safe environments where people can be unmasked, but that only works if they are vaccinated.
CNN’s Leana Wen: ‘Public health is now under attack in a way that it has not been before’ | KK Ottesen | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostWith her own private enterprise and those connections, she was able to beat Costco or Total Wines or whatever.
A weed dealer in NYC on how legalization could affect his business | Luke Winkie | June 4, 2021 | VoxThe private sector is the engine of global change, and action and success will depend on harnessing the power of private enterprise.
Climate summit leaders hope to catalyze a key ingredient: Cash | Steven Mufson, Brady Dennis | April 21, 2021 | Washington PostThe new administration should embrace this revolution — and bring the power of private enterprise to bear in crossing the next cosmic frontier.
As private companies erode government’s hold on space travel, NASA looks to open a new frontier | Christian Davenport | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostThe organization will create reports, make recommendations and raise the “big questions” about living in and exploring space to governments and private enterprise.
She prized the individual over the collective, and private enterprise over state intervention.
For good reason, almost all government agencies already operate far more openly than the typical private enterprise.
Our Secret Service Needs More…Aristotelian Ethics? | Noah Kristula-Green | May 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAbramoff describes his lobbying career as an expression of his zeal to keep government “off the back” of private enterprise.
But to conservatives, this meant big government meddling in private enterprise.
Finally, they must accept the fact that only private enterprise can create jobs—more stimulus money is not the answer.
I know of no other private enterprise that so truly represents the skill, aptitude, and energy of American genius.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyAnd it is no less certain that this growth of resources is due to private enterprise.
It costs the Government from 50 percent more to twice as much as it would private enterprise to put water on the land (applause).
For this reason forestry is by nature less suited for private enterprise.
Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai Boerkerprivate enterprise is dying, being slowly killed by Government competition.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada Cambridge
British Dictionary definitions for private enterprise
economic activity undertaken by private individuals or organizations under private ownership: Compare public enterprise
another name for capitalism
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Cultural definitions for private enterprise
Business carried on for profit and not owned by the government; also, the system that discourages public ownership of business; the same as free enterprise. (See private sector.)
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