Enterprise

Enterprise (occasionally archaically spelt enterprize) can refer to the following:

Economics and business

• Almost any business or organization can be called an enterprise, possibly led by an entrepreneur.
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car, specific car-rental agency:
• Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maitenance company in the United Kingdom
• Stanford Technology Trading Group International (STTGI), informally known as "Enterprise", a U.S. weapons-dealing company involved in the Iran-Contra Affair
• Subud Enterprise Services, any entreprenurial activity undertaken by a member of the spiritual organization Subud
• Enterprise edition, a large commercial establishment
• Farm enterprise, component of a farm business, e.g. a farm may include an arable enterprise and a dairy enterprise
• Free enterprise, a type of economy; a loose synonym for implemented capitalism

Ships and boats

• USS Enterprise, eight ships in the United States Navy carried the name USS Enterprise
• HMS Enterprise, fourteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise, HMS Enterprize or Enterprise
• L'Entreprise for the French ship that was captured and became the HMS Enterprise.
• Enterprise (steamboat), a privately-owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
• Enterprise, one of the ships especially built for the upcoming China trade in the early 19th century, owned by the fur trader and multimillionaire John Jacob Astor of New York
• International Enterprise sailing dinghy.
• Enterprize (1829), an 1829-built schooner - Melbourne's tall ship
• Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War

Spacecraft

Non-fictional

• Space Shuttle Enterprise.
• VSS Enterprise, the proposed inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet, an endeavor of Sir Richard Branson.

Fictional

• Starship Enterprise, nine ships in the Star Trek universe have had the name USS Enterprise or Enterprise

Computing

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

Other connotations

• Enterprise, Alabama
• Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a community in Northwest Territories, Canada (postal code X0E 0R1)
• Enterprise, Florida, a former railroad community now a suburb of Orlando, Florida.
• Enterprise, Utah, a town in Washington County on State Route 18
• Enterprise culture
• Enterprise zone
• Social enterprise
• Enterprise (train) a Belfast-Dublin railway service.
• Kia Enterprise, base on the Mazda Sentia, a car built by Kia Motors.