Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- ready to undertake projects of importance or difficulty, or untried schemes; energetic in carrying out any undertaking: Business is in need of enterprising young people.
- characterized by great imagination or initiative: an enterprising foreign policy.
adjective
- ready to embark on new ventures; full of boldness and initiative
“eager to undertake,” 1610s, from enterprise. Until mid-19c. (at least in Britain) mostly in a bad sense: “scheming, ambitious, foolhardy.” Earlier (1560s) as a verbal noun meaning “action of undertaking.”