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Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize ) may refer to:
Business and economics
Brands and enterprises
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
Enterprises in the Soviet Union , the analog 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
United Kingdom enterprise law , the regulation of businesses and public sector bodies within the economic constitution
Organizations
Computing
Entertainment and media
Television
Fictional entities
Star Trek vessels
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 fourth, 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
Newspapers
Australia
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) , in Brockton, Massachusetts
The Enterprise (Omaha) , in Nebraska (1893–1914)
Malheur Enterprise , in Malheur County, Oregon
The Press-Enterprise , in Riverside, California (1885–1983)
Places
Canada
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
Vehicles
Aircraft
Spacecraft
Trains
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
L'Entreprise , 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 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 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
Enterprise -class 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) .
HMS Enterprise was a ship used for harbour service, launched in 1778 as
HMS Resource . 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
Emerald -class
light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
HMS Enterprise (A71) was an
Echo -class inshore survey ship launched in 1958 and sold in 1985.
HMS Enterprise (H88) is an
Echo -class multi-role survey vessel (hydrographic/oceanographic) launched in 2002 and currently in service.
Other ships
Enterprise (yacht) , a J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup
Enterprise (1776) , a schooner, previously a privateer, used by the Continental Navy in Chesapeake Bay until 1777
Enterprise (1814) , a steamboat operating during the Battle of New Orleans
Enterprize (1829) , an Australian topsail schooner used for the founding of Melbourne, Australia
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 (1861) , a sidewheeler, built in San Francisco, operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 to her loss in 1885
Enterprise (1862) , a Canadian pioneer sternwheeler on the upper Fraser River
PS Enterprise , an 1878 Australian paddle steamer on the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers
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
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)
Enterprise (1898 ship) , see
Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
Ship classes
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term