private enterprise

noun

: free enterprise

Examples of private enterprise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Chinese variant actually stimulates economic activity as corrupt officials sell the rights to monetize unproductive state assets to private enterprises. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 14 July 2026

President Miguel Díaz-Canel recently announced a dramatic expansion of private enterprise in Cuba, following measures to promote foreign investment, most notably from Cuban Americans in Florida. — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 9 July 2026

Opportunity Zones cut through government failure by empowering private enterprise instead of bureaucracy. — Joseph "joe" Kaufman, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026

Yet many could still replicate portions of its economic evolution by broadening participation, encouraging private enterprise, welcoming additional foreign investors, and leveraging competition among outside powers to secure more favorable outcomes. — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for private enterprise

• operationalize
• actualize
• antagonize
• apologise
• apologize
• capitalize
• categorize
• characterize
• commercialize
• conceptualize
• contrariwise
• criminalize