public enterprise
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rajanvir Singh Kapur is the managing director of the public enterprise that oversees the tram and bus system.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
“We have an existing agreement,” Duma, minister for public enterprise and state investment, told Reuters on the telephone from Port Moresby.
From Reuters • Nov. 26, 2018
If ever a public enterprise were ripe for privatization, it’s this one; the ineptitude of the county’s Department of Liquor Control, an 80-year-old remnant of post-Prohibition days, is notorious.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2016
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor also alleged that the family offered her the powerful public enterprise minister's post in 2010 in exchange for business favours.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2016
I can’t think of any public enterprise to work up, or any nuisance to be suppressed.”
From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Barrett, Katharine Ellis
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