enterprise vs performance

enterprise

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

  • Active participation in projects. 

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

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

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. 

performance

noun
  • That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character. 

  • The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc. 

  • The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance. 

  • The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action. 

  • A live show or concert. 

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