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enterprising (adj.)
"eager to undertake," 1610s, from
enterprise
. Until mid-19c. (at least in Britain) mostly in a bad sense: "scheming, ambitious, foolhardy." Earlier (1560s) as a verbal noun meaning "action of undertaking."
