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n.
  1. Business activities unregulated by state ownership or control; privately owned business.
  2. A privately owned business enterprise, especially one operating under a system of free enterprise or laissez-faire capitalism.

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Business carried on for profit and not owned by the government; also, the system that discourages public ownership of business; the same as free enterprise. (See private sector.)

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: subscribing to capitalistic competition
  Synonyms: competitive, free-enterprise

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Economics Dictionary. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.  Read more
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