enterprising
An enterprising young woman started a successful recycling business in her neighborhood.
- Adjective:
- Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness: Describes a person or entity that is willing to undertake new, difficult, or complex projects with energy and determination.
- Characterized by boldness and readiness to take risks in business or innovation: Often used to describe an entrepreneurial spirit or approach.
- Adjective:
- The company is looking for enterprising individuals who can develop new markets.
- Her enterprising spirit led her to start a successful business from her garage.
- It was an enterprising solution to a very old problem.
"to prove oneself enterprising": to demonstrate one's initiative and capability through action.
- He proved himself enterprising by securing funding for the project when no one else could.
"an enterprising venture": a business project or undertaking that is characterized by innovation and risk-taking.
- The startup was an enterprising venture that disrupted the entire industry.
Enterprise (n): A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one; also, a business company.
- Starting her own enterprise was always her dream.
Enterprisingly (adv): In a manner showing initiative and resourcefulness.
- She tackled the problem enterprisingly.
- Resourceful: Having the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.
- Innovative: Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
- Go-getting (informal): Energetically and ambitiously eager to succeed.
- Unadventurous: Not willing to take risks or try out new things.
- Unenterprising: Lacking initiative or boldness.
"An enterprising spirit": A natural disposition toward initiative and innovation.
- The pioneers who settled the west possessed an enterprising spirit.
"To show an enterprising turn of mind": To demonstrate a natural inclination toward creative and bold thinking.
- Even as a child, he showed an enterprising turn of mind by starting a small lemonade stand.
An enterprising young woman started a successful recycling business in her neighborhood.
- marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects
- an enterprising foreign policy
- an enterprising young man likely to go far