employee ownership

1. 1.

   ownership of a business by the people who work for it

   Broaderownership

Questions about employee ownership

What does employee ownership mean?

employee ownership means "ownership of a business by the people who work for it".

Is employee ownership a common word?

employee ownership 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.