private enterprise

noun

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Yet many could still replicate portions of its economic evolution by broadening participation, encouraging private enterprise, welcoming additional foreign investors, and leveraging competition among outside powers to secure more favorable outcomes. Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 America’s advantage comes from the voluntary alignment of government, private enterprise, investors, innovators, workers, and communities pursuing a common purpose. Marc Andersen, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Alpha-gal was more of a private enterprise, another rumor contends. Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 The things that have made our economy the best, most dynamic, most resilient, most amazing in the world is actually private capital funding private enterprise with limited interference from government. Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for private enterprise

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First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

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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 5 Jul. 2026.

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