unenterprise

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ enterprise

Noun

unenterprise (uncountable)

  1. Lack of enterprise.
    • 1893, Francis Boyer Relton, An Account of the Fire Insurance Companies (page 298)
      The difficulty is less apparent in the case of a Company, but the one feature in the Sun which strikes us above all others, is that age has not brought unadaptability, nor prosperity unenterprise.
    • 1945, British Information Services, British Speeches of the Day (volume 3, page 614)
      Some of the others are a bit depreciated; they show marks of private unenterprise. Not so the Bank of England.