Enterprise

[en-ter-prahyz]

Enterprise (occasionally used with the archaic spelling Enterprize) can refer to the following:

Economics and business

A business, company, or comparable organization
Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a car-rental agency
Enterprise Asia, a regional NGO for the development of entrepreneurship, based in Kuala Lumpur
Enterprize Canada, a Canadian student-run entrepreneurial business plan competition and conference
Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
Farm enterprise, a component of a farm business; a farm may for example include an arable enterprise and a dairy enterprise
Free enterprise, a type of economy; a loose synonym for implemented capitalism
Enterprise, an informal name for STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International), a U.S. weapons-dealing company involved in the Iran-Contra Affair
Subud Enterprise Services, any entrepreneurial activity undertaken by a member of the spiritual organization Subud

HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the Royal Navy (four others named Enterprise did not use the HMS prefix)
USS Enterprise, any of eight ships in the United States Navy (of which two would not have used the USS prefix)
Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
Enterprize (1829), Melbourne's tall ship
Enterprise (1862), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
Enterprise (1930), J-class yacht and 1930 America's Cup defender
SS Flying Enterprise (1947–1952), was built in 1944 and originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B).
Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy

Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
Enterprise, an early Goodyear Blimp

Space Shuttle Enterprise
VSS Enterprise, the proposed inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet

Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe
Enterprise, a ship used by the party in Final Fantasy III
Enterprise, an airship used by Cecil Harvey and his party in Final Fantasy IV

Enterprise architecture
Enterprise software
Enterprise 64 and 128, an 8-bit home computer from the UK; also known as Flan and Elan
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

United States

Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride
Social enterprise
Enterprise (train), an inter-city train service between Belfast and Dublin
Enterprise Records, a record label
Enterprise, title of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise during its first two seasons
Free Enterprise (film), starring William Shatner
USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships.