different between enterprise vs emprise

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

English

Alternative forms

• emprize

Etymology

From Old French emprise, emprinse, from Late Latin *imprensa, from Latin in- + prehendere (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?a?z/

Noun

emprise (plural emprises)

1. (archaic) An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     noble minds of yore allyed were, / In braue poursuit of cheualrous emprize, / That none did others safety despize […]

   • 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Coplas de Manrique

     the deeds of love and high emprise

   • 1900, William Archer, America To-Day, Observations & Reflections, page 181:

     Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language.

2. (archaic) The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.

Verb

emprise (third-person singular simple present emprises, present participle emprising, simple past and past participle emprised)

1. (obsolete) To undertake.

Anagrams

• empires, epimers, imprese, permies, premies, premise, spireme

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?iz/

Noun

emprise f (plural emprises)

1. expropriation
2. domination, control, influence

Further reading

• “emprise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

emprise f (oblique plural emprises, nominative singular emprise, nominative plural emprises)

1. enterprise; undertaking; activity

Derived terms

• emprisier

Descendants

• ? English: emprise
• French: emprise

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (emprise)