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Enterprise (occasionally archaically spelled enterprize) can refer to the following:
[edit] Economics and business
- Almost any business or organization can be called an enterprise, possibly led by an entrepreneur. The term is also increasingly used to refer to the process by which new companies are formed and new products and services are created and brought to market.
- Enterprise skills are business skills relating to an individual or organisation's capability to respond to changes in markets with innovation.
- Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car, specific car-rental agency:
- Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
- 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
- STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International), informally known as "Enterprise", 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
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- USS Enterprise - eight ships in the United States Navy carried the name Enterprise. Six of them were commissioned and use the USS prefix
- HMS Enterprise, fourteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named Enterprise. Ten of them were commissioned and used the "HMS" prefix
- French frigate L'Entreprise - the French ship that was captured and became the first HMS Enterprise
- Enterprise (1814), 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
- Enterprise (dinghy) - the International Enterprise Class 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
- Enterprise, an airship used by Cecil Harvey and his party in Final Fantasy IV
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