Usually means: Business owned by private individuals.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word private enterprise:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. private enterprise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. private enterprise: Merriam-Webster
  3. private enterprise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. private enterprise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. private enterprise: Collins English Dictionary
  6. private-enterprise, private enterprise: Vocabulary.com
  7. private-enterprise: Wordnik
  8. private enterprise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. private enterprise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. private-enterprise, private enterprise: Dictionary.com
  11. Private enterprise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. private-enterprise, private enterprise: FreeDictionary.org
  13. private-enterprise, private enterprise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. private-enterprise, private enterprise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. private enterprise: Wiktionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. private enterprise: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. private-enterprise, private enterprise: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (private enterprise)

▸ noun:  enterprise owned by private owners, investors or shareholders

Similar:
capitalist, capitalistic, competitive, free-enterprise, business venture, investee, investomer, joint-stock company, business, equity, more...

Opposite:
public sector, government-run, state-owned

Phrases:
private enterprise number, more...

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Similar:
capitalist, capitalistic, competitive, free-enterprise, business venture, investee, investomer, joint-stock company, business, equity, more...

Opposite:
public sector, government-run, state-owned

Phrases:
private enterprise number, more...



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