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private enterprise
[private a. (n.) 4 c, 5.]
A business or other commercial activity that is privately owned and free of direct state control; such concerns collectively. Also attrib.
1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India iii. 310 That portion of the trade..which the Company relinquished to private enterprise. 1859Mill On Liberty v. 191 When private enterprise, in a shape fitted for undertaking great works of industry, does not exist in the country. 1888E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxii. 331 Credit..was the only means you had for concentrating and directing it [sc. capital] upon industrial enterprises. It was in this way a most potent means for exaggerating the chief peril of the private enterprise system of industry by enabling particular industries to absorb disproportionate amounts of..disposable capital. 1905H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii. 32 The same national bias towards private enterprise and leaving bad alone..now indentured him firmly into the hands of Mr. Shalford of the Folkestone Drapery Bazaar. 1927Melody Maker Sept. 931/1 The present massacre of private enterprise on the exhibiting side of the [cinema] trade. 1930Economist 5 July 14/2, 53,983 houses were built by private enterprise. 1935Discovery Mar. 63/1 In these days, when even established private enterprise meets with official disapproval, it was hardly to be expected that so universal a service as television could escape semi-official monopoly. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xiv. 149 The Larborough firm had..replaced the windows... But they, of course, were Private Enterprise. 1958New Statesman 1 Nov. 577/2 The man who at last can get a mortgage may not care if public money is being doled out to him through private-enterprise building societies. 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xxi. 210 Bombing his own men and planes had therefore really been a commendable and very lucrative blow on the side of private enterprise. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxviii. 126 He must be offering the Egyptians a sort of gadget—on the side, a private-enterprise extra. 1975N.Y. Times 17 Oct. 4/2 Despite three decades of Communist rule, pockets of private enterprise in Poland have not only survived but are also showing signs of a modest renaissance.
So private enterpriser, an advocate of or participant in private enterprise.
1896G. B. Shaw in London Leader 19 Dec. 443/2 The public bodies under Socialism could watch the results of private enterprise... Under the present system we pay the successful private enterpriser too well. 1904― Common Sense of Municipal Trading vii. 57 Free competition between private enterprisers. 1952N.Y. Times Mag. 20 July 13/2 From the days of Jefferson and Jackson..it [sc. the Democratic Party] has drawn to its ranks..the immigrant and the private enterpriser in conflict with the ‘money interests’. 1956‘A. Gilbert’ Riddle of Lady iii. 43 A nice chap, thought Crook, a private enterpriser. 1965Economist 5 June 1163/2 An old-fashioned bureaucracy more afraid of the change that the planners may bring than even the private enterpriser. |