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

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== 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
* [[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)|''Enterprise'' (soundtrack)]], a 2002 soundtrack album from the first season of the series
* [[Enterprice (British TV series)|''Enterprice'' (British TV series)]], a 2018 television series

=== Fictional entities ===

==== Star Trek vessels ====

* [[Starship Enterprise|Starship ''Enterprise'']], a list, timeline and brief description of starships in the fictional history of ''Star Trek''
** [[Enterprise (NX-01)|''Enterprise'' (NX-01)]],  the main setting of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701)]], from the original ''Star Trek'' television series and the first three ''Star Trek'' films
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-A)]],from the fourth, fifth and sixth ''Star Trek'' films
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-B)]], from the film ''Star Trek: Generations''
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-C)]], from the ''Star Trek: Next Generation'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise"
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D)]], from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (also two episodes of ''Star Trek: Picard'')
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-E)]], from the films ''Star Trek: First Contact'', ''Star Trek: Insurrection'', and ''Star Trek: Nemesis''
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F)|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)|USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-G)]], from the ''Star Trek: Picard'' episode "The Last Generation"
** [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J)|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 (TV series)|Riverboat]]''
* ''Enterprise'', a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel ''[[Space Viking]]''

=== Newspapers ===

'''Australia'''

* [[The Enterprise (Katoomba)|''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)|''The Enterprise'' (Brockton)]], in Brockton, Massachusetts
* [[Enterprise (Omaha)|''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 ===

* [[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)|''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 ===
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* [[IXS Enterprise|IXS ''Enterprise'']], a NASA conceptual interstellar ship
* [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'']]
* [[VSS 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)|''Enterprise'' (Via Rail train)]], a former service between Montreal and Toronto
* Enterprise, an [[List of LNER Class A1/A3 locomotives|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 {{ship|French frigate|L'Entreprise||2}}, 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-of-war|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 Norwich (1693)|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 {{sclass|Enterprise|frigate|0}} 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)|USS ''Enterprise'' (1775)]].
* [[HMS Resource (1778)|HMS ''Enterprise'']] was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as {{HMS|Resource|1778|6}}. ''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 {{sclass|Emerald|cruiser|0}} [[light cruiser]] launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
* {{HMS|Enterprise|A71}} was an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (1957)|0}} inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
* {{HMS|Enterprise|H88}} is an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (2002)|0}} multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.

==== Other ships ====

* {{ship||Enterprise|yacht}}, a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
* {{ship||Enterprise|1776}}, a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
* {{ship||Enterprise|1814}}, a steamboat operating during the Battle of New Orleans
* {{ship||Enterprize|1829}}, an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
** {{ship||Enterprize|replica}}, a replica of the 1829 ''Enterprize''
* {{ship||Enterprise|slave ship}}, forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the slaves on board
* {{ship||Enterprise|1855}}, a Canadian 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers
* {{ship||Enterprise|1861}}, a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
* {{ship||Enterprise|1862}}, a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
* [[PS Enterprise|PS ''Enterprise'']], an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
* {{ship||Enterprise|sternwheeler 1863}}, an American steamboat that operated on the Willamette River in Oregon
* ''Enterprise'', a sailing ship [[List of shipwrecks in 1903|caught in a storm]] off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
* ''London Enterprise'' (1950), an oil tanker built for [[London & Overseas Freighters]], scrapped {{circa|1974}}
* ''London Enterprise'' (1983), a [[Panamax]] oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters
* {{ship|SS|Flying Enterprise}} (1944–1952), an American cargo ship originally commissioned as the SS ''Cape Kumukaki'' (C1-B)
* {{ship||Enterprise|1898 ship}}, see [[Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed]]

==== Ship classes ====

* {{ship||Enterprise|dinghy}}, a class of sailboat
* ''[[Discoverer Enterprise]]'', the namesake of a class of deepwater drillships
* [[Enterprise-class gunboat|''Enterprise''-class gunboat]], five ships operated by the US Navy in the late 19th century
* [[Enterprise-class frigate|''Enterprise''-class frigate]], class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the Royal Navy

== 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)|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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