enterprise vs entity

enterprise

noun
  • A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor. 

  • Active participation in projects. 

  • A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative. 

  • An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one. 

verb
  • To treat with hospitality; to entertain. 

  • To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon. 

  • To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult. 

entity

noun
  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. 

  • Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. 

  • The state or quality of being or existence. 

  • An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body. 

  • A spirit, ghost, or the like. 

  • The existence of something considered apart from its properties. 

How often have the words enterprise and entity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )