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Industrial enterprise   /ɪndˈəstriəl ˈɛntərprˌaɪz/   Listen
Industrial enterprise

noun
1.
The development of industry on an extensive scale.  Synonyms: industrialisation, industrialization.






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"Industrial enterprise" Quotes from Famous Books



... will not in the end be missed, although it may require a considerable time to be fully understood. Officialism is a foe to inventive progress; and whether it exists under a regime of collectivism or under one of autocracy, it must paralyse industrial enterprise to that extent, thus rendering the country which has adopted it liable to be outstripped ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... recently, in the United States, this has been possible. Transition from the status of wage-worker to that of capitalist has been easy. But with the era of concentration and the immense capitals required for industrial enterprise, and the exhaustion of our supply of free land, these transitions become fewer and more difficult, and class lines tend to become permanently fixed. The stronger and more ambitious members of the lower class, finding ...
— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo

... companies and limited liabilities, it may be interesting to see on what terms the original founders of the Company of St.-Gobain put their heads and their purses together, to establish a great industrial enterprise. Their articles of association were signed by twelve associates on February 1, 1703, some ten years after William Paterson and Lord Halifax laid the foundations of the Bank of England and of the British public debt. The capital of the company, estimated at 2,040,000 livres, was divided into twenty-four ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert



Words linked to "Industrial enterprise" :   manufacture, industry



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