free enterprise

3 definitions found

free enterprise - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  free enterprise \free enterprise\ n.
     1. an economic system having predominantly private ownership
        of the means of production, and relying chiefly on market
        forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine
        prices, and having a minimum of governmental interference
        in economic decisions; also, the political doctrine
        advocating such a system as the economic system of a
        country. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Syn: market economy, laissez-faire economy.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     2. The conduct of business according to the principles of the
        free enterprise doctrine; the conduct of economic activity
        without governmental interference.
        [PJC]

free enterprise - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  free enterprise
      n 1: an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate
           goods and resources and to determine prices [syn: market economy
           , free enterprise, private enterprise,
           laissez-faire economy] [ant: non-market economy]

free enterprise - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "free enterprise":
     autarky, bimetallism, bourgeois, capitalism, capitalist,
     capitalistic system, economic self-sufficiency, finance capitalism,
     free competition, free economy, free trade,
     free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, governmentalism,
     individualism, individualistic, isolationism, laissez-aller,
     laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, let-alone policy,
     let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, managed currency,
     noninterference, nonintervention, nonsocialistic, nullification,
     party line, party principle, planned economy, policy, polity,
     position, price supports, private enterprise, private ownership,
     private sector, private-enterprise, protection, protectionism,
     public policy, pump-priming, rugged individualism, sectionalism,
     self-regulating market, state capitalism