competitive enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsofcompetitiveandenterprise

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competitive
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpet.ɪ.tɪv/us
/kəmˈpet̬.ə.t̬ɪv/
involving ...
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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofcompetitiveandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcompetitive enterprise

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While social democratic governments use public institutions and programmes to promote markets, conservative governments privatise public institutions in order to model the forms ofcompetitiveenterprisethey are promoting.
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We shall continue to pursue vigorously policies which encourage sustained economic growth, falling inflation, andcompetitiveenterprise.
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To try to harmonise them and bring them all together in this gloriouscompetitiveenterprisetakes no account of the number of things.
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Every rule ofcompetitiveenterprisewas turned upside down.
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Those who believe that this is a highly-competitive industry seem to have very peculiar notions aboutcompetitiveenterprise.
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It is good so far as it stimulatescompetitiveenterprise, but by itself the mere abolition of tariffs is a negative policy.
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Maybe we support the general profit motive and believe incompetitiveenterprise.
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They believe incompetitiveenterprise: not in co-operation but in competition.
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Undercompetitiveenterprise, where businesses are fighting for their own hands, the acquisition of information of that kind is out of the question.
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The fact remains that everybody who is not just thinking of ideology knows that privatecompetitiveenterprise delivers the goods and nationalised industry does not.
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Untilcompetitiveenterpriseis allowed to work, costs will mount or, at the best, remain on the existing high level.
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What a contrast this all is with the propaganda about "free and flexiblecompetitiveenterprise".
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We have accustomed ourselves to the idea of harmonising social services, and so on, in the interests ofcompetitiveenterprise.
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There can be over-trading in farming as in any othercompetitiveenterprise.
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We are dealing withcompetitiveenterprise, and he ought to bear this in mind.
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We want co-operation in making the plans andcompetitiveenterprisein carrying them out.
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We are told that we are to return to horse-drawn vehicles orcompetitiveenterpriseto get our goods through.
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We believe that the experience of the years between the wars, shows definitely that it iscompetitiveenterprisewhich brings down housing costs.
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Their idea is to destroy the social services and force the people back into the jungle of freecompetitiveenterprise.
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It certainly does not lead to free and flexiblecompetitiveenterprise.
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