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Recent Examples of microenterprise
Among its wide variety of services and resources, Opening Doors offers pro bono immigration legal services, mental health counseling services, housing assistance and microenterprise business loans.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
The city recognizes microenterprises as commercial enterprises that have five or fewer employees.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 13 July 2025
While true microenterprises may be exempt, most small companies are expected to comply, and accessibility audits, remediation and staff training all demand serious investment.
—Ran Ronen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Milpitas has allocated $200,000 in federal funds to provide up to 40 local microenterprises each with $5,000.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
From 1973 to 2022, these institutions have made a significant impact on 850,000 businesses and microenterprises while creating or preserving three million jobs nationwide.
—Lenwood V. Long, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
The city recognizes microenterprises as commercial enterprises that have five or fewer employees.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 13 July 2025
While true microenterprises may be exempt, most small companies are expected to comply, and accessibility audits, remediation and staff training all demand serious investment.
—Ran Ronen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Milpitas has allocated $200,000 in federal funds to provide up to 40 local microenterprises each with $5,000.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
From 1973 to 2022, these institutions have made a significant impact on 850,000 businesses and microenterprises while creating or preserving three million jobs nationwide.
—Lenwood V. Long, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microenterprise
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Those institutions are largely unconcerned with the small- and medium-sized enterprises that Fasanara has become so accustomed to financing and would much rather continue to focus on large, mainstream corporate clients, where the returns are gigantic.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Nor will sweeping attacks on enterprise.—
Nicolas S. Rohatyn,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The pledges are widely expected to boost European firms’ bottom lines, with regionally headquartered companies already reporting record order backlogs and huge upswings in income over the past year.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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The report builds on previous work at the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed legacy contractors to produce weapons faster, introduced accountability for delays and sought to foster competition among firms competing for Defense Department (DOD) contracts.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2026
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Large alternative asset managers, with both private credit and private equity businesses, are so far striking a measured tone, acknowledging pockets of stress while emphasizing resilience.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Director Scott Ellis understands all this, and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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While French and English companies have long dominated the extraction industry in Cameroon, Chinese companies have established a significant presence in recent years, particularly in the gold mining regions of the east.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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That accounts for roughly 63% of all IEEPA duties, according to Sanne Manders, president of Flexport, a global trade and logistics company that helps businesses estimate the size of their refunds.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 Apr. 2026
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But even the entry-level Superior Rooms offer good-sized nests for a Florentine sojourn, and there is no such thing as a small bathroom in this establishment (or one, come to that, without enough marble to carve a David).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
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India wants to diversify its sourcing away from China in these sectors, Malik said, adding that shipbuilding and automotive steel are further areas of interest to India.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Prior to her father's death in 1952, Princess Elizabeth lived a relatively quiet life, spending her teen years under the tutelage of her parents and fostering some of the interests that would become lifelong passions.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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However, boundaries have not been redrawn since the 1971 census, as successive governments delayed the process over concerns about uneven population growth.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Damaging winds and flooding remain the primary concerns for any storms that can form on Thursday.—
Ahmad Bajjey,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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As Mercury joins Mars in Aries in your 9th house, curiosity turns into action and ideas want movement from you.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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For One Person After her husband died, Betty Constable lived alone in her house on Orchard Circle in Princeton.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Microenterprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microenterprise. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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