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Enterprise (occasionally used with the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:

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Economics and business

  • A business
  • A company
  • Enterprises in the Soviet Union were economic organizations responsible for production, distribution or another function (the socialist equivalent to a company in capitalism)
  • Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Enterprize Canada, a Canadian student-run entrepreneurial business plan competition and conference
  • Enterprise Capital Fund, a type of venture capital in the UK
  • Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
  • Enterprise GP Holdings, energy holding company
  • Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and several other car-rental agencies
  • Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
  • Enterprise Products, natural gas and crude oil pipeline company
  • Social enterprise, an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits for external shareholders
  • Watercraft

  • HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy (four others did not use the HMS prefix)
  • USS Enterprise, any of several ships of the United States Navy including (see List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise):
  • USS Enterprise (CV-6) (1936) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated US Navy ship
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (1961), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-80) (2025), a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier scheduled to be constructed
  • Enterprise (1776), a ship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution
  • Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
  • Enterprise (slave ship), an American merchant ship forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the 78 slaves on board.
  • Enterprize (1829), Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
  • Enterprize Replica, a replica of the 1829 Enterprize
  • Enterprise (1855), a 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers in Northwest America
  • Enterprise (1862), pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
  • Enterprise (sternwheeler 1863), a steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in Oregon, United States
  • Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
  • SS Flying Enterprise, built in 1944 and originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B)
  • London Enterprise, an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1950 and scrapped c. 1974
  • London Enterprise, a Panamax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1983
  • Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy
  • Discoverer Enterprise, deepwater drillship that gives its name to the Enterprise class of large drillships
  • Enterprise (yacht), J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
  • Aircraft

  • Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • Goodyear L class blimp Enterprise, World War II US Navy designation L-5
  • Spacecraft

  • Space Shuttle Enterprise
  • VSS Enterprise, the inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
  • IXS Enterprise, NASA Concept "Warp" ship
  • In fiction

    Star Trek
  • Star Trek: Enterprise, also Enterprise, a television series running 2001–2005
  • Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe
  • Enterprise (NX-01), the main setting of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), the main setting of the original Star Trek television series and several Star Trek films
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A), the main setting of the fifth and sixth Star Trek films
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B), launched at the start of Star Trek: Generations
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C), appears in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise"
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), the main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F), a non-player ship of the Star Trek Online Massive Multiplayer Roleplaying Video Game
  • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J), appears in the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise "Azati Prime" in the 26th century
  • Other
  • Enterprise, a ship in the game Final Fantasy III
  • Enterprise, an airship in the game Final Fantasy IV
  • Enterprise, a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel Space Viking
  • Enterprise, the title ship in the 1959–1961 television series Riverboat
  • Computing

  • Enterprise (computer), an 8-bit home computer of the 1980s from the UK, also known as Flan and Elan
  • Enterprise software, business-oriented computer application/software
  • Enterprise storage, computer data storage products for large business customers
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP), an information-technology term referring to a hardware or software system that serves all departments within an enterprise
  • Windows 8 Enterprise, a marketing edition of the Windows 8 operating system
  • United States

  • Enterprise, Alabama, a city
  • Enterprise, Amador County, California, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Butte County, California, a former settlement
  • Enterprise, Lake County, California, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Shasta County, California, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Florida, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Kansas, a city
  • Enterprise, Minnesota, an abandoned townsite
  • Enterprise, Mississippi, a town
  • Enterprise, Linn County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, McDonald County, Missouri, a ghost town
  • Enterprise, Shelby County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Nevada, an unincorporated census-designated place
  • Enterprise, Ohio (disambiguation), two places
  • Enterprise, Preble County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Hocking County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Preble County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise, Oregon, a city
  • Enterprise, Utah, a city
  • Enterprise, Morgan County, Utah, a census-designated place
  • Enterprise, Wirt County, West Virginia
  • Enterprise, Wisconsin, a town
  • Enterprise (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Enterprise Township, Michigan
  • Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota
  • Enterprise Township, Valley County, Nebraska
  • Canada

  • Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a hamlet
  • Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of Stone Mills, Ontario
  • Enterprise No. 142, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
  • Guyana

  • Enterprise, Guyana, a village
  • Newspapers

  • The Press-Enterprise, a former newspaper published 1885-1983, now merged into currently published paper in Riverside, California
  • High Point Enterprise, a newspaper published in High Point, North Carolina
  • The Beaumont Enterprise, a newspaper published in Beaumont, Texas
  • The Enterprise (Brockton), a newspaper published in Brockton, Massachusetts
  • Other

  • Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride
  • Enterprise (train service), an inter-city train service between Belfast and Dublin
  • Enterprise Records, a record label
  • USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships
  • References

    Enterprise Wikipedia