enterprise vs industry

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. 

industry

noun
  • Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services. 

  • The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises. 

  • The tendency to work persistently. Diligence. 

  • Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade. 

  • Automated production of material goods. 

  • A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex. 

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