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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enterprise.

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Examples

  • We are the only country in the world who dont have it and thats only because we have even 'enterprised' the basic need,, health.

    Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009

  • As the Clouds reach the enterprised, opportunities are clear [...]

    As Clouds Reach the Enterprise, Opportunities Are Clear 2009

  • William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

    Because we ventured out of the cave and made fire… 2009

  • William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

    Jerry Gordon Books » 2009 » July 2009

  • "The combination of Oracle and Portal delivers the first end-to-end packaged enterprised software suite for the communications industry," said Oracle President Charles Phillips in the company's press release.

    Oracle-Portal Deal To Reach Peak Value In 2008 2006

  • Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

    Walden 2004

  • But to circle the earth, as the heavenly bodies do, was not done nor enterprised till these later times: and therefore these times may justly bear in their word, not only plus ultra, in precedence of the ancient non ultra, and imitabile fulmen, in precedence of the ancient non imitabile fulmen,

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • He remarks, in his Memoirs, that of all his well advised actions, none proved so lucky in the execution, as what he had boldly enterprised, not by calculation, but upon the moment.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • In the which letter he gaue his malediction or curse to his children and successours, if they enterprised to besiege Rhodes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Bartholomew Close, and then turned round to another passage that goes into St. John Street; then, crossing into Smithfield, went down Chick Lane and into Field Lane to Holborn Bridge, when, mixing with the crowd of people usually passing there, it was not possible to have been found out; and thus I enterprised my second sally into the world.

    Moll Flanders 2003

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