🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

impresa nazionale

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /imˈpre.za nat.tjoˈna.le/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
National enterprise/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl ˈɛn.tə.praɪz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'impresa nazionale gestisce le risorse energetiche."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A business organization, corporation, or commercial undertaking owned, controlled, or heavily regulated by the national government.

    "The national enterprise played a critical role in developing the country's telecommunications infrastructure."
  2. 2

    A large-scale commercial or industrial project of significance to the entire nation.

    "Building the high-speed rail network was conceived as a grand national enterprise."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the adjective 'national' (from Latin natio, meaning birth or people) and 'enterprise' (from Old French entreprise, from entreprendre, meaning to undertake). The term emerged in modern political economy to describe large-scale commercial, industrial, or state-owned undertakings operating at a national level.

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