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enterprising

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1. enterprising - Noun

2. enterprising - Adjective

3. enterprising - Verb

Meaning

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. Edmund Burke

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion. Kurt Hahn

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. Christian Nestell Bovee

The really exciting focus here [is] the event and others like it that encourage, support and celebrate the enterprising innovation of pioneers working to give humanity wings. Vanna Bonta

In Vienna an enterprising firm supplied atrocity photographs with blanks for the headings so that they might be used for propaganda purposes by either side. Arthur Ponsonby

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