different between campaign vs enterprise

English

Etymology

From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin camp?nia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campagna and champagne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæm?pe?n/, /k?m?pe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

campaign (plural campaigns)

1. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
2. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
3. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grath to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Hebrew: ??????? (kampéin)

Translations

Verb

campaign (third-person singular simple present campaigns, present participle campaigning, simple past and past participle campaigned)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
2. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
   • 2014, Doug Boyce, Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, chapter 1, 31:

     Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.

Translations

Anagrams

• pangamic, panmagic

English

Alternative forms

• enterprize (chiefly archaic)
• entreprise (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French via Middle English and Middle French entreprise, feminine past participle of entreprendre (“to undertake”), from entre (“in between”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin inter + prehend?, see prehensile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt??p?a?z/
• Hyphenation: en?ter?prise

Noun

enterprise (countable and uncountable, plural enterprises)

1. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

   The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.

   A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.

2. An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.

   Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.

3. (uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

   He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.

   • 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live

     This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.

4. (uncountable) Active participation in projects. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• initiative

Derived terms

• enterprising
• commercial enterprise
• scientific enterprise

Translations

Verb

enterprise (third-person singular simple present enterprises, present participle enterprising, simple past and past participle enterprised)

1. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

   • Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia

2. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
   • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

     The business must be enterprised this night.

   • c. 1680, Thomas Otway, letter to Elizabeth Barry

     What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!

3. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

References

• enterprise at OneLook Dictionary Search
• enterprise in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• enterprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• entreprise