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en·ter·pris·ing [ˈentəpraɪzɪŋ, Am -t̬ɚ-] ADJ

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

enterprising businessman
enterprising idea

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
One story says the enterprising post-war generation created the egg-shaped mold to make up for an eggless batter, as eggs used to be a luxury.
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His father's influence was that of an enterprising freethinker who encouraged his son's creativity.
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They are one of the most respectable and enterprising of mercantile tribes.
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A few enterprising people started printing small newspapers from salvaged presses and little capital.
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Meanwhile, enterprising criminals would steal bus transfers from bus drivers and sell the transfers on the street for 50 cents.
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The encouragement that this undertaking received induced the enterprising proprietor to enlarge his sphere of activity.
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His enterprising and progressive spirit took him to worry about public works and participated in many of them.
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Their ships, outward bound with military stores and freighted home with cotton, were the most enterprising of blockade-runners between 1861 and 1865.
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He was enterprising and interested in business, and was praised as being an extraordinarily first-rate man.
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An enterprising logger could purchase a stand of promising forest, erect his own mill, cut and process the logs and float them down the river.
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