enterprise vs operation

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. 

operation

noun
  • A business or organization. 

  • The method or practice by which actions are done. 

  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. 

  • A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands); 

  • A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm) 

  • A planned undertaking. 

  • a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value. 

  • The method by which a device performs its function. 

  • A surgical procedure. 

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