family businesses
Kin-owned commercial ventures
Family businesses are companies owned or controlled by members of a single family, often across generations.
The term emphasizes continuity and personal investment: The restaurant has been a family business for forty years.
Family businesses range from corner shops to multinational corporations.
The phrase can imply either warmth and loyalty or nepotism and insularity, depending on context.
- mom and popInformal term for parents
- corner storeSmall neighborhood retail outlet
- cottage industriesSmall home-based manufacturing
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- successionFollowing in order
passing the torch · next generation · microbusinesses · generations · inheritance · co-ownership · patrimony · self-employed · multigenerational · blood ties · companies · legacy · matriarch · dynastic · old money · proprietorship · kitchen table · Main Street
- ChinatownChinatown, dim sum, dragon dances, Chinese New Year, lion dances
- local businessescorner store, shops, retailers, local shops, bakery
- bourgeoisiemiddle class, petit bourgeois, shop owners, shopkeepers, merchants
- Indian DiasporaGujaratis, Punjabis, Sikhs, expatriates, expats
- British AsiansSouth Asian, Leicester, Bradford, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
family businessesmultinational corporations
Businesses operating in multiple countries
family businessesgovernment agencies
State-run administrative bodies
public sector organizations · nonprofits · NGOs · state enterprises · public institutions
family, business, familiar, businessman, unfamiliar, families, familial, businesses, businesswoman