Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:
Business and economics
Brands and enterprises
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Enterprise GP Holdings
Enterprise GP Holdings was a midstream energy holding company based in Houston, Texas, that made its debut on the Fortune 500 list at #177 in 2007. , an energy holding company
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Enterprise plc
Enterprise plc was a support services company originally based in Farington in Lancashire, England. Its core markets were local authorities and utility sectors. It has recently been integrated into Ferrovial's UK company, Amey plc.
History
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, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company
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Enterprise Products
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. () is an American midstream natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas.
It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004. The company ranked No. 105 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of th ...
, a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company
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Enterprise Records
Stax Records is an American record company, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the label changed its name to Stax Records in 1961. It also shared its operations with sister label Volt Records.
Stax was ...
, a record label
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is an American car rental agency headquartered in Clayton, Missouri, in Greater St. Louis. Enterprise is the flagship brand of Enterprise Holdings, which also owns other agencies including Alamo Rent a Car and National Car ...
, a car rental Provider
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Enterprise Holdings
Enterprise Holdings is an American private holding company headquartered in Clayton, Missouri in Greater St. Louis. It is the parent company of car rental agencies Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, Alamo Rent a Car and also operates s ...
, the parent company
General
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Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...
, economic activity done by a businessperson
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Big business
Big business involves large-scale corporate-controlled financial or business activities. As a term, it describes activities that run from "huge transactions" to the more general "doing big things". In corporate jargon, the concept is commonly kn ...
, larger corporation commonly called "enterprise" in business jargon (excluding small and medium-sized businesses)
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Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of people, whether Natural person, natural, Legal person, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common p ...
, a legal entity practicing a business activity
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Enterprises in the Soviet Union, the analog of "company" in the former socialist state
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Enterprise architecture, a strategic management discipline within an organization
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Enterprise Capital Fund
Enterprise Capital Funds are financial schemes established by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in the United Kingdom to address a market weakness in the provision of equity finance to UK small and medium enterprises (SMEs ...
, a type of venture capital in the UK
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
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Social enterprise, an organization that applies commercial strategies to improve well-being
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United Kingdom enterprise law
United Kingdom enterprise law concerns the ownership and regulation of organisations producing goods and services in the UK, European and international economy. Private enterprises are usually incorporated under the Companies Act 2006, regulated ...
, the regulation of businesses and public sector bodies within the economic constitution
Organizations
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Enterprize Canada, a student-run entrepreneurial competition and conference
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Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
Computing
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Enterprise (computer)
The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer announced in 1983, but through a series of delays, not commercially available until 1985. The specification as released was powerful and one of the higher end in its class (though not by the m ...
, a 1980s UK 8-bit home computer, also known as ''Flan'' and ''Elan''
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP), integrated management of core business processes or the technology supporting such management
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Enterprise software
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, ...
, business-oriented computer applications
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Enterprise storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs are all examples of storage media. Biological molecules such as RNA and DNA are conside ...
, for large businesses
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Windows Enterprise, an edition of several versions of Microsoft Windows
Entertainment and media
Television
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Star Trek: Enterprise'', also ''Enterprise'', a 2001-2005 television series
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''Enterprise'' (soundtrack), a 2002 soundtrack album from the first season of the series
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''Enterprice'' (British TV series), a 2018 television series
Fictional entities
Star Trek vessels
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Starship ''Enterprise'', a list, timeline and brief description of starships in the fictional history of ''Star Trek''
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''Enterprise'' (NX-01), the main setting of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701), from the original ''Star Trek'' television series and several ''Star Trek'' films
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-A),from the fourth, fifth and sixth ''Star Trek'' films
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-B), from the film ''Star Trek: Generations''
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-C), from the ''Star Trek: Next Generation'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise"
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D), from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-E), from the films ''Star Trek: First Contact'', ''Star Trek: Insurrection'', and ''Star Trek: Nemesis''
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-F), a non-player ship in the ''Star Trek Online'' video game
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USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-J), from the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' episode "Azati Prime"
Other fictional vessels
* ''Enterprise'', an airship in the game ''
Final Fantasy IV''
* ''Enterprise'', an airship in the game
Final Fantasy XIV
* ''Enterprise'', the title ship in the 1959–1961 television series ''
Riverboat''
* ''Enterprise'', a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel ''
Space Viking''
Newspapers
Australia
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''The Enterprise'' (Katoomba), in Katoomba, New South Wales (1913)
United States
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Bastrop Daily Enterprise'', in Louisiana
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Chico Enterprise-Record
The ''Chico Enterprise-Record'' is the daily newspaper of Chico, California. Also known as the E-R, the newspaper was first published in Bidwell Bar, California as the Butte Record in 1853 and is now part of the MediaNews Group corporation, who ...
'', in Chico, California
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High Point Enterprise'', in North Carolina
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The Beaumont Enterprise'', in Texas
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''The Enterprise'' (Brockton), in Brockton, Massachusetts
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''The Enterprise'' (Omaha), in Nebraska (1893–1914)
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Malheur Enterprise'', in Malheur County, Oregon
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The Press-Enterprise'', in Riverside, California (1885–1983)
Geographic locations
Canada
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Enterprise, Northwest Territories
Enterprise is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, located between Great Slave Lake and the Alberta border on the Hay River.
Enterprise is at an important junction of the Mackenzie Highway and the road to Y ...
, a hamlet
* Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of
Stone Mills, Ontario
Stone Mills is a lower-tier township north of Greater Napanee in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. According to the 2016 census, the township has a population of 7,702.
The Township of Stone Mills was formed on January 1, 1998 through ...
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Rural Municipality of Enterprise No. 142, Saskatchewan
United States
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Enterprise, Alabama
Enterprise is a city in the southeastern part of Coffee County and the southwestern part of Dale County in Southeastern Alabama, United States. Its population was 28,711 at the 2020 census. Enterprise is the primary city of the Enterprise micr ...
, a city
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Enterprise, California (disambiguation)
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Enterprise, Florida
Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, in the U.S. state of Florida, and its former county seat. Situated on the northern shore of Lake Monroe, it is flanked by the cities of DeBary and Deltona. Enterprise was once ...
, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Indiana, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Iowa
Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Iowa, United States. Enterprise is located in Douglas Township. The state capital and county seat of Des Moines
Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. s ...
, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Kansas, a city
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Enterprise, Louisiana
Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located along the south bank of the Ouachita River and Louisiana Highway 124, north-northwest of Harrisonburg. Enterprise had a post offi ...
, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Minnesota
Enterprise is an abandoned townsite in section 36 of Utica Township, in Winona County, Minnesota, United States.
History
Enterprise was founded by Alexander Whittier, who established three inns at the roadside in the 1850s. A mill and dam were ...
, an abandoned townsite
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Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi
Enterprise is a town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 526 at the 2010 census.
History
Enterprise was so named "to denote the policy of their inhabitants".
Geography
Enterprise is located in northwestern Clarke ...
, a town
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Enterprise, Union County, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Linn County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, McDonald County, Missouri, a ghost town
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Enterprise, Shelby County, Missouri Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories b ...
, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Nevada
Enterprise is an Unincorporated towns in Nevada, unincorporated town in the Las Vegas Valley in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 221,831 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census, up from 14,676 at the United Stat ...
, a census-designated place
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Enterprise, Ohio (disambiguation)
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Enterprise, Oklahoma
Enterprise is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Haskell County, Oklahoma, Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP following the 2010 United States census, 2010 census.
The CDP is in wes ...
, a census-designated place
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Enterprise, Oregon
Enterprise is a city in and the county seat of Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,940 in the 2010 census. , a city
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Enterprise, Utah
Enterprise is a rural farming community in northwestern Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,711 at the 2010 census. Enterprise is home to two schools, Enterprise Elementary School (K-6) and Enterprise High School (7-1 ...
, a city
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Enterprise, Morgan County, Utah, a census-designated place
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Enterprise, West Virginia
Enterprise is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, along the West Fork River. The population was 961 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Enterprise is located at (39.419860, -80.276738).
According to the ...
, a census-designated place in Harrison County
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Enterprise, Wirt County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise (community), Wisconsin
Enterprise is an unincorporated community located in the town of Enterprise, Oneida County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most po ...
, an unincorporated community
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Enterprise, Wisconsin
Enterprise is a town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 274 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Enterprise is located in the town.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a ...
, a town
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Enterprise Rancheria
Enterprise Rancheria is the landbase for the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe, located in Butte County, near Oroville, California
Oroville (''Oro'', Spanish for "Gold" and ''Ville'', French for "town") is the county seat of Butte County, California, U ...
in California
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Enterprise Township, Michigan
Enterprise Township is a civil township of Missaukee County, Michigan, Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 174 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, t ...
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Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota
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Enterprise Township, Valley County, Nebraska
Enterprise Township is one of fifteen townships in Valley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 105 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 105.
See also
*County government in Nebraska
County gover ...
Other places
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Enterprise, Guyana
Enterprise is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica region along the coastal belt of Guyana. It is about two square miles in size and has a population of 2,657 as of 2012. It is located about southeast of the capital city Georgetown. This small com ...
, a village
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Enterprise Rupes
Enterprise Rupes is an escarpment on Mercury, located at 36.54°S, 283.46°W. It is the longest rupes on Mercury, with a length of . The escarpment was named after , a ship which conducted the first surveys of the Mississippi and Amazon
Amazon m ...
, an escarpment on Mercury
Vehicles
Aircraft
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''Enterprise'' (balloon), a gas-inflated aerial reconnaissance balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
* ''Enterprise'', a US Navy
L-class blimp
The L-class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. In the mid-1930s, the Goodyear Aircraft Company built a family of small non-rigid airships that the company used for advertising the Goodyear name. ...
* ''Enterprise'', an
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign was a British four-engine monoplane airliner and the largest airliner built in Britain during the Interwar period.Tapper, 1988, p.237
The British airline Imperial Airways requested tenders for a large monop ...
plane
Spacecraft
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IXS ''Enterprise'', a NASA conceptual interstellar ship
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Space Shuttle ''Enterprise''
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VSS ''Enterprise'', the inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
Trains
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Enterprise (train service), between Belfast and Dublin
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''Enterprise'' (Via Rail train), a former service between Montreal and Toronto
Watercraft
United States Navy ships
(Chronological)
* , a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture in 1777
* , a schooner that fired the first shots in the First Barbary War
* , a schooner, stationed primarily in South America to patrol and protect commerce
* , a steam-powered sloop-of-war used for surveying, patrolling, and training until 1909
* , a motorboat (1917–1919) used in World War I as a non-commissioned section patrol craft
* (1936), a ''Yorktown''-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated U.S. Navy ship
* (1961), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
* (2027), a planned ''Gerald R. Ford''-class aircraft carrier
Royal Navy ships
(Chronological)
* was a 24-gun
sixth rate, previously the French frigate , captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707.
* was a 44-gun
fifth rate launched in 1709. She underwent a great repair in 1718–19, was hulked in 1740 and fitted as a hospital ship in 1745 before being sold in 1749.
* , a 44-gun frigate, was to have been named ''Enterprise'', but was renamed five months before her launch in 1741.
* was an 8 gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
captured from the Spanish in 1743. She was employed solely in the Mediterranean as a dispatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca.
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HMS ''Enterprise'' was a 48-gun fifth rate launched in 1693 as . She was renamed ''Enterprise'' in 1744 as a 44-gun fifth rate and was broken up in 1771.
* was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790 and broken up in 1807.
* was a 10-gun tender captured by the Americans in 1775, see
USS ''Enterprise'' (1775).
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HMS ''Enterprise'' was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as . ''Resource'' was rebuilt as a 22-gun floating battery in 1804, renamed ''Enterprise'' in 1806 and sold in 1816.
* was a wooden paddle gunvessel purchased in 1824 and in service until 1830.
* was a survey sloop launched in 1848, used as a coal hulk from 1860 and sold in 1903.
* HMS ''Enterprise'' was to have been a wooden screw sloop. She was laid down in 1861, renamed HMS ''Circassian'' in 1862 but cancelled in 1863.
* was an ironclad sloop ordered as HMS ''Circassian'', but renamed in 1862. She was launched in 1864 and sold in 1884.
* was an
light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
* was an inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
* is an multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.
Other ships
* , a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
* , a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
* , steamboat that delivered supplies and troops during the Battle of New Orleans and was the first to ascend the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
* , an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
** , a replica of the 1829 ''Enterprize''
* , forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the slaves on board
* , a Canadian 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers
* , a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
* , a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
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PS ''Enterprise'', an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
* , an American steamboat that operated on the Willamette River in Oregon
* ''Enterprise'', a sailing ship
caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
* ''London Enterprise'' (1950), an oil tanker built for
London & Overseas Freighters
London & Overseas Freighters Ltd. (LOF) was an ocean-going merchant shipping company that for most of its history was based in the United Kingdom.
Counties Ship Management
In 1920 Manuel Kulukundis from the Aegean Sea, Aegean island of Kasos a ...
, scrapped
* ''London Enterprise'' (1983), a
Panamax
Panamax and New Panamax (or Neopanamax) are terms for the size limits for ships travelling through the Panama Canal. The limits and requirements are published by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) in a publication titled "Vessel Requirements". ...
oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters
* (1944–1952), an American cargo ship originally commissioned as the SS ''Cape Kumukaki'' (C1-B)
* , see
Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
The Mackenzie River in Canada's Northwest Territories is a historic waterway, used for centuries by Indigenous peoples, specifically the Dene, as a travel and hunting corridor. Also known as the Deh Cho, it is part of a larger watershed that inc ...
Ship classes
* , a class of sailboat
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Discoverer Enterprise'', the namesake of a class of deepwater drillships
Other uses
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Enterprise (apple)
Enterprise is a modern bred, late-ripening and attractive, red cultivar of domesticated apple with excellent fruit quality combined with disease resistance to apple scab, scab, cedar apple rust, fire blight and some resistance to powdery mildew. T ...
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Enterprise (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
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Enterprise (ride)
The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Park Attractions and Anton Schwarzkopf beginning in 1972. The HUSS ride was an adaptation and improvement of a design produced earlier that year by Schwarzkopf, with an incre ...
, an amusement ride
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Enterprise Cup
The Enterprise Cup is an annual rugby union competition in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, though the competition frequently has the appearance of being an all-Kenyan affair as the majority of rugby clubs in the African Great Lakes region are based in ...
, an annual rugby union competition in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
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Enterprise MRT station
Enterprise MRT station is a future elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Jurong Region line in Jurong West, Singapore.
History
On 9 May 2018, LTA announced that Enterprise station would be part of the proposed Jurong Region line (J ...
, an upcoming MRT station on the Jurong Region line in Singapore
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Enterprise number, a former type of US business phone number which would automatically accept a collect call
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USS ''Enterprise'' (BLDG 7115), a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's ''Enterprise'' ships
* "The Enterprise", a secret operation carried out by senior officials of the Reagan administration, used to identify the perpetrators of the
Iran-Contra affair.
See also
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Enterprise Building (disambiguation) Enterprise Building may refer to:
*Enterprise Building (Worcester, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
*Enterprise Building (High Point, North Carolina), listed on the National Regi ...
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Business (disambiguation)
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying-and-selling goods or services.
Business may also refer to:
* a business: an organization ( company or enterprise, for example) involved in the trade of goods ...
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Enterprise High School (disambiguation)
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Entreprenant (disambiguation)
''Entreprenant or Entreprenante may refer to:''
* Entreprenant (1965), port tug
* French ship Entreprenant or ''Entreprante'': several ships of the Navy of France by the name
* HMS Entreprenante (1799)
HMS ''Entreprenante'' (also ''Entrep ...
, the French word for ''enterprising'' and the name of several sailing vessels
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Entreprise
Entreprise may refer to:
* ''L'Entreprise'' was French frigate captured in May 1705, and recommissioned as
*The French Navy had, between 1671 and 1846, at least 23 sailing vessels christened with the name , French for "Enterprising"
See also
*E ...
, a variant spelling and the name of several sailing vessels
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Free enterprise (disambiguation)
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USS Enterprise (disambiguation)
USS ''Enterprise'' may refer to the following ships and other vessels:
United States Navy Ships
* List of ships of the United States Navy named ''Enterprise''
** , a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture i ...
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