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'''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
==Vessels==
===Watercraft===
* [[HMS Enterprise|HMS ''Enterprise'']], any of fourteen ships of the Royal Navy (of which four did not use the ''HMS'' prefix)
* [[USS Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise'']], any of eight ships in the United States Navy (of which two would not have used the ''USS'' prefix)
* [[Enterprise (1814)|''Enterprise'' (1814)]], a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
* [[Enterprize (1829)|''Enterprize'' (1829)]], Melbourne's tall ship
* [[Enterprise (1862)|''Enterprise'' (1862)]], pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
* ''Enterprise'', a sailing ship [[List of shipwrecks in 1903|caught in a storm]] off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
* [[Enterprise (yacht)|''Enterprise'' (1930)]], [[J-class yacht]] and 1930 America's Cup defender
* [[Flying Enterprise|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
===Aircraft===
* [[Enterprise (balloon)|''Enterprise'' (balloon)]], a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
* ''Enterprise'', an early [[Goodyear Blimp]]
===Spacecraft===
* [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Space Shuttle ''Enterprise'']]
* [[VSS Enterprise|VSS ''Enterprise'']], the proposed inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
===Fictional===
* [[Starship Enterprise|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''
==Computing==
* [[Enterprise architecture]]
* [[Enterprise software]]
* [[Enterprise 128|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
==Geographic locations==
;United States
* [[Enterprise, Alabama]]
* [[Enterprise, Florida]]
* [[Enterprise, Kansas]]
* [[Enterprise, Mississippi]]
* [[Enterprise, Nevada]]
* [[Enterprise, Oregon]]
* [[Enterprise, Utah]]
* [[Enterprise Township, Michigan]]
* [[Enterprise Township, Minnesota]]
;Canada
* [[Enterprise, Northwest Territories]]
* [[Enterprise, Ontario]]
;Guyana
* [[Enterprise, Guyana]]
==Other==
* [[Enterprise (ride)]], an amusement ride
* [[Social enterprise]]
* [[Enterprise (train)]], a Belfast-Dublin railway service
* [[Enterprise Records]], a record label
* ''Enterprise'', title of the television series ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' during its first two seasons
* [[Free Enterprise (film)|''Free Enterprise'' (film)]], starring William Shatner
* [[USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115)|USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115)]], a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships.
==See also==
* [[Master of Enterprise]]
* [[Manchester Science Enterprise Centre]]
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