racket
fraudulent scheme
illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
enterprise
endeavor endeavour | a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness), he had doubts about the whole enterprise |
| construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
industrialization
industrialisation
industrial enterprise | the development of industry on an extensive scale |
commercial enterprise
business enterprise
business | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects, computers are now widely used in business |
employee-owned enterprise
employee-owned business | a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
enterprise
enterprisingness
initiative
go-ahead | readiness to embark on bold new ventures |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
construction grammatical construction
expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
construction
twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
| enterprise | an organization created for business ventures, a growing enterprise must have a bold leader |
| commercial enterprise | an enterprise connected with commerce |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
market economy
free enterprise
private enterprise
laissez-faire economy | an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
| enterprise zone | a city district where development receives special tax advantages |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
| construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
competitive
free-enterprise(a)
private-enterprise(a) | subscribing to capitalistic competition |
| residential | used or designed for residence or limited to residences, a residential hotel, a residential quarter, a residential college, residential zoning |
| residential | of or relating to or connected with residence, a residential requirement for the doctorate |