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FAMILY BUSINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A corporation that is entirely owned by the members of a single family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("family business" is a kind of...):
close corporation; closed corporation; private corporation; privately held corporation (a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market)