Enterprise
Enterprise (occasionally archaically spelt enterprize) can refer to any of the following:
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Psychology
- an attitude or a character trait conducive to undertaking bold ventures or actions, especially ventures involving risk
- a bold venture, particularly one of exploration or one that seeks inordinate profit
Economics
- A business or organization, possibly the brainchild of an entrepreneur
- A large commercial establishment (more specifically when viewed in marketing terms, and especially for the purposes of computer marketing and/or licencing: see enterprise edition)
- Free enterprise: a type of economy; a loose synonym for implemented capitalism
- A specific car-rental agency: Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Ships and boats
- USS Enterprise, one of several ships of the United States Navy.
- HMS Enterprise or Enterprize, one of several ships of the Royal Navy.
- Enterprise, 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.
- The International Enterprise sailing dinghy.
- Enterprize, an 1829-built schooner - Melbourne's tall ship.
Spacecraft
Non-fictional
- Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- VSS Enterprise, the proposed inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet, an endeavor of Richard Branson.
Fictional
- Star Trek: Enterprise, a television show in the Star Trek franchise (formerly titled Enterprise).
- One of a number of starships from the fictional Star Trek universe, see Starship Enterprise:
- Enterprise (NX-01) from Star Trek: Enterprise
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from Star Trek: The Original Series
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) from films IV, V, and VI
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) from Star Trek: Generations
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) from one episode ("Yesterday's Enterprise") of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) from ST: First Contact, ST: Insurrection, and ST: Nemesis
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) from two novels: Peter David's Imzadi and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' Millennium
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) from one episode ("Azati Prime") of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Two known ISS Enterprises from the Mirror Universe (more from alternate realities of that universe are also featured in comics or novels)
Computing
- Enterprise 64, an 8-bit home computer from the UK; also known as Flan and Elan
- Enterprise-level applications
Other connotations
- Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a community in Northwest Territories, Canada (postal code X0E 0R1)
- enterprise culture
- enterprise zone