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family business

NOUN
  1. a corporation that is entirely owned by the members of a single family

How To Use family business In A Sentence

  • Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses.
  • The case has offered an insight into travails he faced running the family business and securing a successor. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nor could working beside his high-powered wife in the family business have failed to emasculate him. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • But for share portfolios a distinction is drawn between shares in companies listed on a recognized stock exchange and shareholdings in unquoted or family businesses. No Escaping the Taxman
  • She cites a number of them - partnership dissolutions, divorce custody, disputes over family businesses and inheritances, supplier-client relationship breakdowns, and even feuding neighbours.
  • Family businesses present an especially knotty problem because in those companies, power is often wielded by owners wedded to the past.
  • His family business and its subsidiary, Keystone Cooperage, make oak wine-barrel stock - the staves and barrelheads - as well as finished barrels.
  • This hugely entertaining programme should be seen by anyone working in a small family business. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their parents were hard-working first-generation migrants who have built successful family businesses, too busy making it in their new country to care about politics.
  • There is an unmistakable note of nostalgia in his voice when he looks back on the early years of the family business.
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