Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:

Business and economics

Brands and enterprises

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 *

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 Th ...

, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company *

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 *

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 *

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 **

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

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 *

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) *

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 * Enterprises in the Soviet Union, the analog of "company" in the former socialist state * Enterprise architecture, a strategic management discipline within an organization *

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 *

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 * Social enterprise, an organization that applies commercial strategies to improve well-being *

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

* Enterprize Canada, a student-run entrepreneurial competition and conference * Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization

Computing

* Enterprise (computer), a 1980s UK 8-bit home computer, also known as ''Flan'' and ''Elan'' * Enterprise resource planning (ERP), integrated management of core business processes or the technology supporting such management * Enterprise software, business-oriented computer applications * Enterprise storage, for large businesses * Windows Enterprise, an edition of several versions of Microsoft Windows

Entertainment and media

Television

* ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', also ''Enterprise'', a 2001-2005 television series ** Enterprise (soundtrack), ''Enterprise'' (soundtrack), a 2002 soundtrack album from the first season of the series * Enterprice (British TV series), ''Enterprice'' (British TV series), a 2018 television series

Fictional entities

Star Trek vessels

* Starship Enterprise, Starship ''Enterprise'', a list, timeline and brief description of starships in the fictional history of ''Star Trek'' ** Enterprise (NX-01), ''Enterprise'' (NX-01), the main setting of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701), from the original ''Star Trek'' television series and several ''Star Trek'' films ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-A),from the fourth, fifth and sixth ''Star Trek'' films ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-B), from the film ''Star Trek: Generations'' ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-C), from the ''Star Trek: Next Generation'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D), from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-E), from the films ''Star Trek: First Contact'', ''Star Trek: Insurrection'', and ''Star Trek: Nemesis'' ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F), USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-F), a non-player ship in the ''Star Trek Online'' video game ** USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J), 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 (TV series), Riverboat'' * ''Enterprise'', a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel ''Space Viking''

Newspapers

Australia * The Enterprise (Katoomba), ''The Enterprise'' (Katoomba), in Katoomba, New South Wales (1913) United States * ''Bastrop Daily Enterprise'', in Louisiana * ''Chico Enterprise-Record'', in Chico, California * ''High Point Enterprise'', in North Carolina * ''The Beaumont Enterprise'', in Texas * The Enterprise (Brockton), ''The Enterprise'' (Brockton), in Brockton, Massachusetts * Enterprise (Omaha), ''The Enterprise'' (Omaha), in Nebraska (1893–1914) * ''Malheur Enterprise'', in Malheur County, Oregon * ''The Press-Enterprise'', in Riverside, California (1885–1983)

Geographic locations

Canada

* Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a hamlet * Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of Stone Mills, Ontario * Rural Municipality of Enterprise No. 142, Saskatchewan

United States

* Enterprise, Alabama, a city * Enterprise, California (disambiguation) * Enterprise, Florida, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Kansas, a city * Enterprise, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Minnesota, an abandoned townsite * Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi, a town * Enterprise, Union County, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Linn County, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, McDonald County, Missouri, a ghost town * Enterprise, Shelby County, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Nevada, a census-designated place * Enterprise, Ohio (disambiguation) * Enterprise, Oklahoma, a census-designated place * Enterprise, Oregon, a city * Enterprise, Utah, a city * Enterprise, Morgan County, Utah, a census-designated place * Enterprise, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Harrison County * Enterprise, Wirt County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Enterprise (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Enterprise, Wisconsin, a town * Enterprise Rancheria in California * Enterprise Township, Michigan * Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota * Enterprise Township, Valley County, Nebraska

Other places

* Enterprise, Guyana, a village * Enterprise, Trinidad and Tobago * Enterprise Rupes, an escarpment on Mercury

Vehicles

Aircraft

* Enterprise (balloon), ''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 * ''Enterprise'', an Armstrong Whitworth Ensign plane

Spacecraft

* IXS Enterprise, IXS ''Enterprise'', a NASA conceptual interstellar ship * Space Shuttle Enterprise, Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'' * VSS Enterprise, VSS ''Enterprise'', the inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet

Trains

* Enterprise (train service), between Belfast and Dublin * Enterprise (Via Rail train), ''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-of-war, sloop 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. * HMS Norwich (1693), 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), USS ''Enterprise'' (1775). * HMS Resource (1778), 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 * PS Enterprise, 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 List of shipwrecks in 1903, caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903 * ''London Enterprise'' (1950), an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters, scrapped * ''London Enterprise'' (1983), a Panamax 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

Ship classes

* , a class of sailboat * ''Discoverer Enterprise'', the namesake of a class of deepwater drillships

Other uses

* Enterprise (apple) * Enterprise (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse * Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride * Enterprise Cup, an annual rugby union competition in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda * Enterprise MRT station, an upcoming MRT station on the Jurong Region line in Singapore * Enterprise number, a former type of US business phone number which would automatically accept a collect call * USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), 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.