How to Use private enterprise in a Sentence

private enterprise

noun
  • The belief that private enterprise alone can solve our problems?
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 21 Apr. 2020
  • More data is now stored in the cloud than on private enterprise servers or consumer devices.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 11 June 2019
  • Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • But those fights all took place within the arena of business and private enterprise.
    — Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Isn’t that conflating public free speech with rules of speech that a private enterprise might have?
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • What happened is that the government took their home, sold it to a private enterprise, and then kicked them out of it.
    — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • But once the projects are built, the benefits redound to private enterprise.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But close observers of his career say that life running a private enterprise will not hold his interest for long.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Even in California there are signs that private enterprise can take off.
    — Edward Pinto and Tobias Peter, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Unlike the latter, Conowingo was built by private enterprise.
    — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Wssssse think space needs to open up to more of the general public, to private enterprise and to all these initiatives.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 July 2021
  • The issue is the sale of public space for private enterprise benefitting the few.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • DeJoy’s master plan comes right out of the private enterprise playbook.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Thus, New York’s subways were not a solely private enterprise.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Climate is not the only arena where courts are being asked to resolve the social costs of private enterprise.
    — Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Locals fear that city officials and private enterprise will once again pay lip service to the tragedy and then move on once the news cameras have left.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • For the time being, Perpall will stick to tackling issues through private enterprise.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • None of the tasks being done well as government always fails to do things efficiently as could be done by private enterprise.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Many things that state governments do would in turn be handed over to cities or to civic organizations and private enterprise.
    — Tanner Greer, National Review, 17 Mar. 2020
  • But, the private enterprise has also meant pirates and other illicit players would have more in which to meddle.
    — Fox News, 1 Oct. 2019
  • China was already feeling the impact of a real estate slump and a crackdown on private enterprise.
    — Laura He, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Those came after a sustained campaign over the past years that included a broad crackdown on private enterprise that roiled markets.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Krause is expected to take a role at a private enterprise software company, though his hiring hasn’t yet been announced.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • Alpha-gal was more of a private enterprise, another rumor contends.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • But growing private enterprise may be the most powerful driver of change, with videos brought in en masse by traders who cross back and forth from China.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • European purchase and procurement of oil and gas is driven by the spirit of private enterprise.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The message seems to be that China isn’t as opposed to private enterprise as was previously thought.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Bet against the force of the public sector combined with the creative ingenuity of private enterprise at your own peril.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The man who put aside his comfortable life of wealth and private enterprise to become a tribune to the common man has been terribly wronged himself.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The job of the US government should be to defend private enterprise from other countries.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2021

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