business owners
Those running enterprises
Business owners are people who have ownership stakes in commercial enterprises.
The term often implies hands-on involvement in running the business, distinguishing it from passive investors or shareholders.
Politicians frequently invoke small business owners as hardworking entrepreneurs deserving protection: Business owners in the community are struggling with rising costs.
The phrase can range from sole proprietors to partners in larger ventures.
- businessmenMale commercial professionals
- entrepreneursThose who launch ventures
- foundersThose who begin institutions
- businesspersonsPeople engaged in commerce
- freelancersSelf-employed contract workers
operators · stakeholders · franchisees · self-employed · mom-and-pop · brick and mortar · startup · tradespeople · firm · company · gig economy · partner · sales · bottom line · tax burden · storefront · boss · management
- ownershomeowner, homeowners, landowner, landlords, shareholders
- affluent professionalsdoctors, lawyers, executives, consultants, architects
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- local economyshops, markets, jobs, wages, workers
- bourgeoisiemiddle class, petit bourgeois, shopkeepers, merchants, upper middle class
- Indian DiasporaGujaratis, Punjabis, Sikhs, expatriates, expats
business ownersemployees
Paid staff members
workers · wage earners · salaried workers · hired hands · staff
business ownersthe working class
Laborers earning wages
proletariat · working class · laborers · wage slaves · have-nots
business, owner, owned, enterprise, ownership, owners, owning, proprietor, subsidiary