# Enterprise

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

## Business and economics

### Brands and enterprises

- [Enterprise GP Holdings](/source/Enterprise_GP_Holdings), an energy holding company
- [Enterprise plc](/source/Enterprise_plc), a UK civil engineering and maintenance company
- [Enterprise Productions](/source/Enterprise_Productions), an American film production company that operated from 1946 to 1949
- [Enterprise Products](/source/Enterprise_Products), a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company
- [Enterprise Records](/source/Enterprise_Records), a record label
- [Enterprise Rent-A-Car](/source/Enterprise_Rent-A-Car), a car rental Provider - [Enterprise Holdings](/source/Enterprise_Holdings), the parent company
- [The Enterprise Studios](/source/The_Enterprise_Studios), a Burbank, California music recording studio

### General

- [Business](/source/Business), economic activity done by a businessperson
- [Big business](/source/Big_business), larger corporation commonly called "enterprise" in business jargon (excluding small and medium-sized businesses)
- [Company](/source/Company), a legal entity practicing a business activity
- [Enterprise architecture](/source/Enterprise_architecture), a strategic management discipline within an organization
- [Enterprise Capital Fund](/source/Enterprise_Capital_Fund), a type of venture capital in the UK
- [Entrepreneurship](/source/Entrepreneurship), the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
- [Social enterprise](/source/Social_enterprise), an organization that applies commercial strategies to improve well-being
- [United Kingdom enterprise law](/source/United_Kingdom_enterprise_law), the regulation of businesses and public sector bodies within the economic constitution

### Organizations

- [Enterprize Canada](/source/Enterprize_Canada), a student-run entrepreneurial competition and conference
- [Enterprise for High School Students](/source/Enterprise_for_High_School_Students), a non-profit organization

## Computing

- [Enterprise (computer)](/source/Enterprise_(computer)), a 1980s UK 8-bit home computer, also known as *Flan* and *Elan*
- [Enterprise resource planning](/source/Enterprise_resource_planning) (ERP), integrated management of core business processes or the technology supporting such management
- [Enterprise software](/source/Enterprise_software), business-oriented computer applications
- [Enterprise storage](/source/Enterprise_storage), for large businesses
- [Windows Enterprise](/source/Windows_Enterprise), an edition of several versions of Microsoft Windows

## Entertainment and media

### Television

- *[Star Trek: Enterprise](/source/Star_Trek:_Enterprise)*, also *Enterprise*, a 2001-2005 television series - [*Enterprise* (soundtrack)](/source/Enterprise_(soundtrack)), a 2002 soundtrack album from the first season of the series
- [*Enterprice* (British TV series)](/source/Enterprice_(British_TV_series)), a 2018 television series

### Fictional entities

#### Star Trek vessels

- [Starship *Enterprise*](/source/Starship_Enterprise), a list, timeline and brief description of starships in the fictional history of *Star Trek* - [*Enterprise* (NX-01)](/source/Enterprise_(NX-01)), the main setting of *Star Trek: Enterprise* - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)), from the original *Star Trek* television series and the first three *Star Trek* films - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-A)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-A)),from the fourth, fifth and sixth *Star Trek* films - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-B)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-B)), from the film *Star Trek: Generations* - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-C)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-C)), from the *Star Trek: Next Generation* episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-D)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)), from *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (also two episodes of *Star Trek: Picard*) - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-E)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-E)), from the films *Star Trek: First Contact*, *Star Trek: Insurrection*, and *Star Trek: Nemesis* - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-F)](/source/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)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-G)), from the *Star Trek: Picard* episode "The Last Generation" - [USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701-J)](/source/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](/source/Final_Fantasy_IV)*
- *Enterprise*, an airship in the game [Final Fantasy XIV](/source/Final_Fantasy_XIV)
- *Enterprise*, the title ship in the 1959–1961 television series *[Riverboat](/source/Riverboat_(TV_series))*
- *Enterprise*, a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel *[Space Viking](/source/Space_Viking)*

### Newspapers

**Australia**

- [*The Enterprise* (Katoomba)](/source/The_Enterprise_(Katoomba)), in Katoomba, New South Wales (1913)

**United States**

- *[Bastrop Daily Enterprise](/source/Bastrop_Daily_Enterprise)*, in Louisiana
- *[Chico Enterprise-Record](/source/Chico_Enterprise-Record)*, in Chico, California
- *[High Point Enterprise](/source/High_Point_Enterprise)*, in North Carolina
- *[The Beaumont Enterprise](/source/The_Beaumont_Enterprise)*, in Texas
- [*The Enterprise* (Brockton)](/source/The_Enterprise_(Brockton)), in Brockton, Massachusetts
- [*The Enterprise* (Omaha)](/source/Enterprise_(Omaha)), in Nebraska (1893–1914)
- *[Malheur Enterprise](/source/Malheur_Enterprise)*, in Malheur County, Oregon
- *[The Press-Enterprise](/source/The_Press-Enterprise)*, in Riverside, California (1885–1983)

## Places

### Canada

- [Enterprise, Northwest Territories](/source/Enterprise,_Northwest_Territories), a hamlet
- Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of [Stone Mills, Ontario](/source/Stone_Mills,_Ontario)
- [Rural Municipality of Enterprise No. 142](/source/Rural_Municipality_of_Enterprise_No._142), Saskatchewan

### United States

- [Enterprise, Alabama](/source/Enterprise,_Alabama), a city
- [Enterprise, California (disambiguation)](/source/Enterprise,_California_(disambiguation))
- [Enterprise, Florida](/source/Enterprise,_Florida), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Indiana](/source/Enterprise,_Indiana), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Iowa](/source/Enterprise,_Iowa), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Kansas](/source/Enterprise,_Kansas), a city
- [Enterprise, Louisiana](/source/Enterprise,_Louisiana), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Minnesota](/source/Enterprise,_Minnesota), an abandoned townsite
- [Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi](/source/Enterprise,_Clarke_County,_Mississippi), a town
- [Enterprise, Union County, Mississippi](/source/Enterprise,_Union_County,_Mississippi), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Linn County, Missouri](/source/Enterprise,_Linn_County,_Missouri), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, McDonald County, Missouri](/source/Enterprise,_McDonald_County,_Missouri), a ghost town
- [Enterprise, Shelby County, Missouri](/source/Enterprise,_Shelby_County,_Missouri), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Nevada](/source/Enterprise,_Nevada), a census-designated place
- [Enterprise, Ohio (disambiguation)](/source/Enterprise,_Ohio_(disambiguation))
- [Enterprise, Oklahoma](/source/Enterprise,_Oklahoma), a census-designated place
- [Enterprise, Oregon](/source/Enterprise,_Oregon), a city
- [Enterprise, Utah](/source/Enterprise,_Utah), a city
- [Enterprise, Morgan County, Utah](/source/Enterprise,_Morgan_County,_Utah), a census-designated place
- [Enterprise, West Virginia](/source/Enterprise,_West_Virginia), a census-designated place in Harrison County
- [Enterprise, Wirt County, West Virginia](/source/Enterprise,_Wirt_County,_West_Virginia), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise (community), Wisconsin](/source/Enterprise_(community),_Wisconsin), an unincorporated community
- [Enterprise, Wisconsin](/source/Enterprise,_Wisconsin), a town
- [Enterprise Rancheria](/source/Enterprise_Rancheria) in California
- [Enterprise Township, Michigan](/source/Enterprise_Township,_Michigan)
- [Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota](/source/Enterprise_Township,_Jackson_County,_Minnesota)
- [Enterprise Township, Valley County, Nebraska](/source/Enterprise_Township,_Valley_County,_Nebraska)

### Other places

- [Enterprise, Guyana](/source/Enterprise,_Guyana), a village
- [Enterprise, Trinidad and Tobago](/source/Enterprise,_Trinidad_and_Tobago)
- [Enterprise Rupes](/source/Enterprise_Rupes), an escarpment on Mercury

## Vehicles

### Aircraft

- [*Enterprise* (balloon)](/source/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](/source/L-class_blimp)
- *Enterprise*, an [Armstrong Whitworth Ensign](/source/Armstrong_Whitworth_Ensign) plane

### Spacecraft

For Star Trek craft, see [Star Trek vessels](#Star_Trek_vessels).

- [IXS *Enterprise*](/source/IXS_Enterprise), a NASA conceptual interstellar ship
- [Space Shuttle *Enterprise*](/source/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise)
- [VSS *Enterprise*](/source/VSS_Enterprise), the inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet

### Trains

- [Enterprise (train service)](/source/Enterprise_(train_service)), between Belfast and Dublin
- [*Enterprise* (Via Rail train)](/source/Enterprise_(Via_Rail_train)), a former service between Montreal and Toronto
- Enterprise, an [LNER Class A1/A3 locomotive](/source/List_of_LNER_Class_A1/A3_locomotives)

### Watercraft

#### United States Navy ships

(Chronological)

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

#### Royal Navy ships

(Chronological)

- [HMS *Enterprise* (1705)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(1705)) was a 24-gun [sixth rate](/source/Sixth_rate), previously the French frigate [French frigate *L'Entreprise*](/source/French_frigate_L'Entreprise), captured in May 1705. She was wrecked in October 1707.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (1709)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(1709)) was a 44-gun [fifth rate](/source/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)](/source/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)](/source/HMS_Enterprize_(1743)) was an 8 gun [sloop](/source/Sloop-of-war) 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*](/source/HMS_Norwich_(1693)) was a 48-gun fifth rate launched in 1693 as [HMS *Norwich* (1693)](/source/HMS_Norwich_(1693)). She was renamed *Enterprise* in 1744 as a 44-gun fifth rate and was broken up in 1771.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (1774)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(1774)) was a 28-gun [*Enterprise*-class frigate](/source/Enterprise-class_frigate) sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790 and broken up in 1807.
- [HMS *Enterprize* (1775)](/source/HMS_Enterprize_(1775)) was a 10-gun tender captured by the Americans in 1775, see [USS *Enterprise* (1775)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(1775)).
- [HMS *Enterprise*](/source/HMS_Resource_(1778)) was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as [HMS *Resource*](/source/HMS_Resource_(1778)). *Resource* was rebuilt as a 22-gun floating battery in 1804, renamed *Enterprise* in 1806 and sold in 1816.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (1824)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(1824)) was a wooden paddle gunvessel purchased in 1824 and in service until 1830.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (1848)](/source/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)](/source/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)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(D52)) was an [*Emerald*-class cruiser](/source/Emerald-class_cruiser) [light cruiser](/source/Light_cruiser) launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (A71)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(A71)) was an [*Echo*-class survey ship (1957)](/source/Echo-class_survey_ship_(1957)) inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
- [HMS *Enterprise* (H88)](/source/HMS_Enterprise_(H88)) is an [*Echo*-class survey ship (2002)](/source/Echo-class_survey_ship_(2002)) multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.

#### Other ships

- [*Enterprise* (yacht)](/source/Enterprise_(yacht)), a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
- [*Enterprise* (1776)](/source/Enterprise_(1776)), a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
- [*Enterprise* (1814)](/source/Enterprise_(1814)), a steamboat operating during the Battle of New Orleans
- [*Enterprize* (1829)](/source/Enterprize_(1829)), an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia - [*Enterprize* (replica)](/source/Enterprize_(replica)), a replica of the 1829 *Enterprize*
- [*Enterprise* (slave ship)](/source/Enterprise_(slave_ship)), forced by weather into Bermuda in 1835, resulting in the liberation of most of the slaves on board
- [*Enterprise* (1855)](/source/Enterprise_(1855)), a Canadian 19th-century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser rivers
- [*Enterprise* (1861)](/source/Enterprise_(1861)), a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
- [*Enterprise* (1862)](/source/Enterprise_(1862)), a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
- [PS *Enterprise*](/source/PS_Enterprise), an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
- [*Enterprise* (sternwheeler 1863)](/source/Enterprise_(sternwheeler_1863)), an American steamboat that operated on the Willamette River in Oregon
- *Enterprise*, a sailing ship [caught in a storm](/source/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1903) off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
- *London Enterprise* (1950), an oil tanker built for [London & Overseas Freighters](/source/London_%26_Overseas_Freighters), scrapped c. 1974
- *London Enterprise* (1983), a [Panamax](/source/Panamax) oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters
- [SS *Flying Enterprise*](/source/SS_Flying_Enterprise) (1944–1952), an American cargo ship originally commissioned as the SS *Cape Kumukaki* (C1-B)
- [*Enterprise* (1898 ship)](/source/Enterprise_(1898_ship)), see [Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed](/source/Boats_of_the_Mackenzie_River_watershed)

#### Ship classes

- [*Enterprise* (dinghy)](/source/Enterprise_(dinghy)), a class of sailboat
- *[Discoverer Enterprise](/source/Discoverer_Enterprise)*, the namesake of a class of deepwater drillships
- [*Enterprise*-class gunboat](/source/Enterprise-class_gunboat), five ships operated by the US Navy in the late 19th century
- [*Enterprise*-class frigate](/source/Enterprise-class_frigate), class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the Royal Navy

## Other uses

- [Enterprise (apple)](/source/Enterprise_(apple))
- [Enterprise (horse)](/source/Enterprise_(horse)), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- [Enterprise (ride)](/source/Enterprise_(ride)), an amusement ride
- [Enterprise Cup](/source/Enterprise_Cup), an annual rugby union competition in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- [Enterprise MRT station](/source/Enterprise_MRT_station), an upcoming MRT station on the Jurong Region line in Singapore
- [Enterprise number](/source/Enterprise_number), a former type of US business phone number which would automatically accept a collect call
- [USS *Enterprise* (BLDG 7115)](/source/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](/source/Iran-Contra_affair).

## See also

- [Enterprise Building (disambiguation)](/source/Enterprise_Building_(disambiguation))
- [Business (disambiguation)](/source/Business_(disambiguation))
- [Enterprise High School (disambiguation)](/source/Enterprise_High_School_(disambiguation))
- [Entreprenant (disambiguation)](/source/Entreprenant_(disambiguation)), the French word for *enterprising* and the name of several sailing vessels
- [Entreprise](/source/Entreprise), a variant spelling and the name of several sailing vessels
- [Free enterprise (disambiguation)](/source/Free_enterprise_(disambiguation))
- [USS Enterprise (disambiguation)](/source/USS_Enterprise_(disambiguation))

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