employee-owned business

1. 1.

   a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it

   Synonymsemployee-owned enterprise

   Broadercommercial enterprise

Questions about employee-owned business

What does employee-owned business mean?

employee-owned business means "a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it".

What is another word for employee-owned business?

Close synonyms include employee-owned enterprise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is employee-owned business a common word?

employee-owned business is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.