Enterprise

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 from the UK, also known as Flan and Elan
• Enterprise software, business oriented computer application/software
• Enterprise storage, the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments
• 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 Windows 8

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, 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)