Enterprise

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

Economics and business

General

• Business, economic activity done by a businessperson
• Company, a legal entity practicing a business activity
• Enterprises in the Soviet Union, the equivalent 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

Brands and enterprises

• Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company
  • Enterprise Holdings, their parent 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

Organizations

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

Geographic locations

Canada

• Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a hamlet
• Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of Stone Mills, Ontario
• Enterprise No. 142, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality

United States

• Enterprise, Alabama, a city
• Enterprise, California (disambiguation)
• Enterprise, Florida, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Iowa
• Enterprise, Kansas, a city
• Enterprise, Louisiana
• 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, an unincorporated census-designated place
• Enterprise, Ohio (disambiguation)
• Enterprise, Oregon, a city
• Enterprise, Pennsylvania
• Enterprise, Utah, a city
• Enterprise, Morgan County, Utah, a census-designated place
• Enterprise, West Virginia
• Enterprise, Wirt County, West Virginia
• Enterprise (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Wisconsin, a town
• 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Star Trek vessels

• Star Trek: Enterprise, also Enterprise, a 2001-2005 television series
• 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 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, a ship in the game Final Fantasy III
• Enterprise, an airship in the game Final Fantasy IV
• Enterprise, the title ship in the 1959–1961 television series Riverboat
• Enterprise, a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel [[Space Viking]

Periodicals

• Bastrop Daily Enterprise, in Louisiana
• Chico Enterprise-Record, a newspaper in Chico, California
• High Point Enterprise, in North Carolina
• The Beaumont Enterprise, in Texas
• The Enterprise (Brockton), in Massachusetts
• The Press-Enterprise, a former newspaper published 1885–1983 in Riverside, California

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

Vessels

Aircraft

• Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Enterprise, a US Navy L-class blimp

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

Watercraft

United States Navy ships

(Chronological)

• USS Enterprise (1775), a Continental Navy sloop captured from the British, burned to prevent recapture in 1777
• Enterprise (1776), a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 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

Other ships

• Enterprise (yacht), a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
• Enterprise (1814), a commercial steamboat that delivered supplies and troops 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 (1862), a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
• 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
• HMS Enterprise, any of several ships of the British Royal Navy
• 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)

Ship classes

• Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailboat
• Discoverer Enterprise, 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 High School (disambiguation)
• 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

See also

• Business (disambiguation)
• Enterprise Building (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)