private enterprise

noun

Examples of private enterprise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Detractors say the expansion of New York’s theater program illustrates two central problems with public support for private enterprise: temporary tax breaks often become permanent, and they are used to incentivize economic activity that would happen anyway. Michael Paulson, New York Times, 17 May 2024 And the private enterprises that committed vast sums to mollifying the activist class by parking DEI functionaries in sinecures within their human-resources departments began paring back their beneficence. The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2024 The entrepreneur said there are ongoing audits of private enterprises and that some business owners have been arrested too. Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2024 Most important, the establishment of limited, efficient regulatory systems that offer clarity and certainty for private enterprises has been critical. Eli Lehrer, Orange County Register, 28 Apr. 2024 Global financial firms have been cutting investment-banking staff in Asia due to a deal drought amid deteriorating U.S.-China relations, a crackdown on private enterprise and a property crisis. Denise Wee, Fortune Asia, 22 Apr. 2024 When Western nations forced China open in 1842 after the First Opium War, the country had long maintained private enterprise, along with steady, pre-industrial technological progress. Evan Osborne, National Review, 9 Apr. 2024 In the first week of March, Zhejiang Daily, the official paper of the Communist Party in the eastern province of Zhejiang, published an opinion piece and an editorial on WeChat, urging netizens to stop attacking private enterprises and entrepreneurs. Laura He, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024 When the opportunity arose, Albán, previously a farming cooperative member, turned Media Luna into the first private enterprise authorized in Ciego de Ávila. Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of private enterprise was in 1789

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“Private enterprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20enterprise. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

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