commercial enterprise

1. An enterprise connected with commerce (synset 108081929)
   is a type of: enterprise - an organization created for business ventures
   subtypes:

   • co-op, cooperative - a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
   • industry - the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
2. The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects (synset 101096649)
   "computers are now widely used in business"
   associated with:

   • overcapitalisation, overcapitalization - (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants)
   • operation - the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
   • business - the volume of commercial activity
   • administration, disposal - a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
   • establishment - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
   • gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house - a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
   • astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness - intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
   • celluloid, cinema, film - a medium that disseminates moving pictures
   • business people, businesspeople - people who transact business (especially business executives)
   • business, business sector - business concerns collectively
   • chain - (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
   • business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern - a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
   • capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
   • copartner - a joint partner (as in a business enterprise)
   • bankroll, roll - a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
   • doldrums, stagnancy, stagnation - a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
   • privatise, privatize - change from governmental to private control or ownership
   • dull, slow, sluggish - (of business) not active or brisk
   • hostile - unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
   • tangible - (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value
   • intangible - (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
   is a type of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
   subtypes:

   • tourism, touristry - the business of providing services to tourists
   • fishing - the occupation of catching fish for a living
   • butchering, butchery - the business of a butcher
   • storage - the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
   • industry, manufacture - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
   • field, field of operation, line of business - a particular kind of commercial enterprise
   • employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise - a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it
   • finance - the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
   • discount business - the business of selling merchandise at a discount
   • real-estate business - the business of selling real estate
   • advertising, publicizing - the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
   • publication, publishing - the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution
   • printing - the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution
   • packaging - the business of packing
   • agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm - a large-scale farming enterprise
   • building, construction - the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
   • shipping, transport, transportation - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
   • venture - a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
   has: business activity, commercial activity - activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise
   is a part of: market, market place, marketplace - the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
   same as: business, business enterprise

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