The phrase "a failed enterprise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a business or project that did not succeed or achieve its intended goals.
Example: "Despite the initial excitement, the startup ultimately became a failed enterprise due to poor management and lack of funding."
Alternatives: "a failed venture" or "an unsuccessful business".
In one of his own novels a few years ago, Donald Westlake wrote, "John Dortmunder and a failed enterprise always recognized one another".
It falls into that gray zone of restaurants trying to make a go of it with some of the same staff, and in the same space, that belonged to a failed enterprise — in this case Grayz, an awkward hybrid of lounge and restaurant.
Dominic Chappell, its new owner, has twice between declared bankrupt and had millions of pounds of debts after a failed enterprise to build a marina on the Isle of Wight.
It sounds like a justification for a failed enterprise, but the store had its best summer of sales ever.
I hope so anyway, because the novel would basically be a failed enterprise if it worked like that.
It is ironic that these were Saddam Hussein's objectives too, but it is now American blood and treasure being wasted in a failed enterprise.
I'll even go out on a limb and say that poor design also leads to failed enterprise software applications, silverware, and airplanes.
His coming-of-age progresses, often hilariously, through one failed enterprise after another: Sports.
Gulzar's three-year-old daughter Tehsin was scaling his leg as he talked about setting up a series of failed enterprises.
If it looks as if he is flying blind — a novice businessman diving into an industry that is plagued by contractions, mergers and failed enterprises — Mr. Eyerly views his fledgling Surf Air as an opportunity to fundamentally change the way business travelers fly.
Maqroll is in midlife; his consciousness is a web of past adventures, of old loves and tortuously failed enterprises, and his dreams figure as importantly as his present perils.
