microenterprise

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Recent Examples of microenterprise 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 The department said at least five grants of up to $5,000 each were issued through a microenterprise grant program. Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microenterprise
Noun
  • Membership is currently 60 firms worldwide, which means only a tiny fraction of enterprises in human history qualify.
    Big Think, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With hyperscalers, chipmakers, and software-as-a-service providers laying the foundation, Steve Hall of ISG argued that enterprises should plug into the broader AI ecosystem instead of trying to build everything in-house.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How does a century-old industrial company such as Firmenich (renamed DSM-Firmenich following its 2023 merger with Dutch chemical firm DSM) manage to remain globally competitive today, given that a large share of its cost base is in the most expensive country in the world?
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The firm now manages more than $90 billion in infrastructure assets globally since launching its infrastructure strategy in 2008, according to information on its website.
    Emma Graham, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Goad joined The Tennessean in 2016 as the business and entertainment editor and has been critical to the company’s digital growth, leading a dramatic expansion of music and entertainment coverage while elevating its enterprise business reporting.
    Nashville Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So, while firing a worker solely for a statement or a belief may be shortsighted, companies can and will take action when employee behavior erodes trust, respect, or collaboration.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When several residents received such offers, rumors about the company’s intentions quickly swirled.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually, with 97% of establishments passing, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the Administration’s actions, most notably the detention of the Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, did garner a response from Democrats, but the noise came largely from the Party’s left—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley—rather than from its establishment.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But its lawmakers said these products needed regulation for the interest of public health and safety.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Jack Cutmore-Scott as Julius Beaufort, an arrogant new money banker at the center of New York society with an interest in Ellen.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Phillies entered the ninth trailing 4-1 and quickly reminded the Dodgers why their bullpen concerns are so loud.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • On the heels of Karen’s sentencing, the women gather at Gizelle’s house to commiserate, and spend the whole scene dancing between concern, empathy, and absurdity.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As the man of the house — for his mother, twin sister and three younger sisters — his adolescence came with different pressures.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • All the while, the enchanted garden where Travis would get down on one knee was being assembled outside of his and Swift’s house.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Microenterprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microenterprise. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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