adj. Displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task.
adj. Being very able and ingenious in business dealings.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having a disposition for or a tendency to enterprise; ready to undertake, or resolute or prompt to attempt, important or untried schemes.
Synonyms Adventurous, Enterprising. Rash, etc. (see adventurous); alert, stirring, energetic, smart, wide-awake.
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adj. marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects
Word Usage
"That a statement in the form of a Hypothetical Proposition may really be an Enthymeme (as observed in chap.v. § 4) can easily be shown by recasting one of the above Enthymemes thus: _If all free nations are enterprising, the Dutch are enterprising_."