enterprise vs proceeding

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. 

proceeding

noun
  • Progress or movement from one thing to another. 

  • An event or happening; something that happens 

  • A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society. 

  • A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction 

  • The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction 

  • Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit. 

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