Enterprise Explained

Enterprise (occasionally archaically spelled 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 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

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

Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
Enterprise (1862), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy
Enterprise (yacht), J-class yacht and 1930 America's Cup defender
Enterprise, an early Goodyear Blimp
Enterprize (1829), Melbourne's tall ship
HMS Enterprise, any of fourteen ships of the Royal Navy (of which four did not use the HMS prefix)
USS Enterprise, any of eight ships in the United States Navy (of which two did not use the USS prefix)

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

Enterprise architecture
Enterprise software
Enterprise 64, 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
An edition of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
Enterprise resource planning (ERP), an Information Technology term referring to a hardware or software system that serves all departments within an enterprise