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Enterprise (occasionally used with the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:
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
Vessels
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
Geographic locations
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, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Enterprise, McDonald County, Missouri, a ghost town
- 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
See also
- Entreprise, a variant spelling and the name of a sailing vessel
- Entreprenant, the French word for Enterprising and the name of several sailing vessels
- Free enterprise (disambiguation)
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