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Adjective: free-enterprise  free'entur`prIz
  1. Subscribing to capitalistic competition
    - competitive, private-enterprise
Noun: free enterprise  free'entur`prIz
  1. An economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices
    - market economy, private enterprise, laissez-faire economy

See also: capitalist, capitalistic

Type of: economic system, economy

Encyclopedia: Free enterprise

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