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Another word for enterprising

Adjective

  1. Taking or willing to take risks

    2. See also:

    safety

  2. Disposed to action

    3. See also:

    action

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Another word for enterprising

Modifier
    2. See also:

    ambitious

    ambitious

    active

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Sentence Examples

  • Its enterprising ambition was encouraged by taking fresh country north and south.

  • Valiant, enterprising, pious as he was, all these fine qualities were ruined by a reckless good nature which never thought of the morrow.

  • commerce, gave a powerful stimulus to rural industry, augmented agricultural capital and called forth a more skilful and enterprising race of farmers.

  • A hardy and enterprising race of men had sprung from this mixture, and supplies being sent by sea from Holland.

  • In 1800, Osai Tutu Quamina, an enterprising and ambitious man, who appears early to have formed the desire of opening a communication with white nations, became king.

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