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small business

[ smawl biz-nis ]

noun

  1. a profit-seeking enterprise or concern that is independently owned and operated, has a limited number of employees, and is not nationally dominant in its field.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of small business1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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Example Sentences

Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.

For instance, this year both New York and New Jersey enacted laws guaranteeing paid sick leave to small-business employees.

She sees the decline of small business in New York as a damning indictment of Cuomo.

The large “too big to fail” banks received huge bailouts, but have remained reluctant to loan to small business.

So not only were they anti-Clinton, but they were anti-American small business and anti-generosity!

After peace was declared he remained there making a small business venture in grains.

So by coach to the Tangier Committee, and there have another small business by which I may get a little small matter of money.

The proper distribution of these to the 147 National Forests is no small business organization in itself.

How often she had dreamed of the small business envelope, addressed in an unfamiliar hand, which might one day appear there!

It is a small business for me, and I don't know how I can descend any lower than to take hold of the hon. member for Ohio.

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