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

Business and economics

Brands and enterprises

* Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company
* Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company
* Enterprise Products, a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company
* Enterprise Records, a record label
* Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a car rental Provider
**Enterprise Holdings, the parent company

General

* Business, economic activity done by a businessperson
* Big business, larger corporation commonly called "enterprise" in business jargon (excluding small and medium-sized businesses)
* Company, 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, a type of venture capital in the UK
* Entrepreneurship, 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, 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), a 2002 soundtrack album from the first season of the series
* ''Enterprice'' (British TV series), a 2018 television series

Fictional entities

Star Trek vessels

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

* ''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), in Brockton, Massachusetts
* ''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), 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'', a NASA conceptual interstellar ship
* Space Shuttle ''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), a former service between Montreal and Toronto
* Enterprise, an LNER Class A1/A3 locomotive

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 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 ''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).
* 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'', 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, 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), 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

* Enterprise Building (disambiguation)
* Business (disambiguation)
* Enterprise High School (disambiguation)
* Entreprenant (disambiguation), the French word for ''enterprising'' and the name of several sailing vessels
* Entreprise, a variant spelling and the name of several sailing vessels
* Free enterprise (disambiguation)
* USS Enterprise (disambiguation)

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