microenterprise en · NOUN
Etymology
From micro- + enterprise.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A very small business with five or fewer employees, or the business sector comprising these businesses.
While the Inter-American bank concentrated most of its efforts during that time on lending to build Latin American infrastructure projects and heavy industries, Mr. Ortiz Mena also set up the bank’s first financing operations for microenterprise.
2007 March 16, Elisabeth Malkin, “Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Minister in 1960s, Dies”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| microenterprises | Number=Plur | lexicographic |