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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 Productions, an American film production company that operated from 1946 to 1949
  • 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
  • The Enterprise Studios, a Burbank, California music recording studio

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 the first three 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 (also two episodes of Star Trek: Picard)
    • 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 which also appears in Star Trek: Picard
    • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G), from the Star Trek: Picard episode "The Last Generation"
    • 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)

Places

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

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

For Star Trek craft, see § Star Trek vessels.
  • 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)

  • USS Enterprise (1775), a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture in 1777
  • USS Enterprise (1799), a schooner that fired the first shots in the First Barbary War
  • USS Enterprise (1831), a schooner, stationed primarily in South America to patrol and protect commerce
  • USS Enterprise (1874), a steam-powered sloop-of-war used for surveying, patrolling, and training until 1909
  • USS Enterprise (SP-790), a motorboat (1917–1919) used in World War I as a non-commissioned section patrol craft
  • USS Enterprise (CV-6) (1936), a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated U.S. Navy ship
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (1961), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-80) (2027), a planned Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

Royal Navy ships

(Chronological)

  • HMS Enterprise (1705) was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707.
  • HMS Enterprise (1709) 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.
  • HMS Liverpool (1741), a 44-gun frigate, was to have been named Enterprise, but was renamed five months before her launch in 1741.
  • HMS Enterprize (1743) 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 HMS Norwich (1693). She was renamed Enterprise in 1744 as a 44-gun fifth rate and was broken up in 1771.
  • HMS Enterprise (1774) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790 and broken up in 1807.
  • HMS Enterprize (1775) 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 HMS Resource. Resource was rebuilt as a 22-gun floating battery in 1804, renamed Enterprise in 1806 and sold in 1816.
  • HMS Enterprise (1824) was a wooden paddle gunvessel purchased in 1824 and in service until 1830.
  • HMS Enterprise (1848) 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.
  • HMS Enterprise (1864) was an ironclad sloop ordered as HMS Circassian, but renamed in 1862. She was launched in 1864 and sold in 1884.
  • HMS Enterprise (D52) was an Emerald-class light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
  • HMS Enterprise (A71) was an Echo-class inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
  • HMS Enterprise (H88) is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.

Other ships

  •  Enterprise (yacht), a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
  •  Enterprise (1776), a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
  •  Enterprise (1814), a steamboat operating during the Battle of New Orleans
  •  Enterprize (1829), an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
    •  Enterprize (replica), a replica of the 1829 Enterprize
  •  Enterprise (slave ship), forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the slaves on board
  •  Enterprise (1855), a Canadian 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers
  •  Enterprise (1861), a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
  •  Enterprise (1862), a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
  • PS Enterprise, an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
  •  Enterprise (sternwheeler 1863), 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 c. 1974
  • London Enterprise (1983), a Panamax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters
  • SS Flying Enterprise (1944–1952), an American cargo ship originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B)
  •  Enterprise (1898 ship), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed

Ship classes

  •  Enterprise (dinghy), 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

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