entreprise

entreprise (plural entreprises)

1. Archaic form of enterprise.

• Enterprise, enterprise

Feminine past participle of entreprendre (undertake).

entreprise f (plural entreprises)

1. company, business
2. enterprise, project
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:

     Mais à peine se vit-il en chemin qu’une pensée terrible l’assaillit, et telle, que peu s’en fallut qu’elle ne lui fît abandonner l’entreprise commencée.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

     But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.

• société

• “entreprise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

entreprise f (plural entreprises)

1. Alternative form of entreprinse