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I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.
Katharine Isabelle

Meaning of "family business" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FAMILY BUSINESS

family business  [ˈfæmlɪ ˈbɪznɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FAMILY BUSINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Family business is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FAMILY BUSINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Family business

A family business is a commercial organization in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family—related by blood or marriage—who are closely identified with the firm through leadership or ownership. Owner-manager entrepreneurial firms are not considered to be family businesses because they lack the multigenerational dimension and family influence that create the unique dynamics and relationships of family businesses.

Definition of family business in the English dictionary

The definition of family business in the dictionary is a business that belongs to a family, and in which family members work.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FAMILY BUSINESS


agribusiness
ˈæɡrɪˌbɪznɪs
agrobusiness
ˈæɡrəʊˌbɪznɪs
antibusiness
ˌæntɪˈbɪznɪs
awareness
əˈwɛənɪs
business
ˈbɪznɪs
darkness
ˈdɑːknɪs
Denis
ˈdɛnɪs
Dennis
ˈdɛnɪs
e-business
ˈiːbɪznɪs
effectiveness
ɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
illness
ˈɪlnɪs
madness
ˈmædnɪs
nonbusiness
ˌnɒnˈbɪznɪs
penis
ˈpiːnɪs
probusiness
prəʊˈbɪznɪs
tennis
ˈtɛnɪs
thickness
ˈθɪknɪs
tiredness
ˈtaɪədnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FAMILY BUSINESS

family album
family allowance
family balancing
family Bible
family butcher
family car
family circle
Family Compact
family court
family credit
Family Crisis Intervention Unit
Family Division
family doctor
family firm
family friend
family grouping
Family Health Services Authority
family hotel
family income supplement
family jewels

WORDS THAT END LIKE FAMILY BUSINESS

big business
bulkiness
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
core business
craziness
dizziness
do the business
emptiness
friendliness
holiness
in the wilderness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
rough-and-readiness
show business
timeliness
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of family business in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «family business» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FAMILY BUSINESS

Find out the translation of family business to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of family business from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «family business» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

家族企业
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empresa familiar
570 millions of speakers

English

family business
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पारिवारिक व्यवसाय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشركات العائلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

семейный бизнес
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

empresa familiar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পারিবারিক ব্যবসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entreprise familiale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

perniagaan keluarga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Familienunternehmen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

家業
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가족 사업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bisnis kulawarga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh doanh gia đình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குடும்ப வணிகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कौटुंबिक व्यवसाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aile işi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

azienda di famiglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rodzinny biznes
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сімейний бізнес
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

afacere de familie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οικογενειακή επιχείρηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

familie besigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

familjeföretag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

familiebedrift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of family business

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FAMILY BUSINESS»

The term «family business» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.244 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FAMILY BUSINESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about family business

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10 QUOTES WITH «FAMILY BUSINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word family business.
1
Carlos Alvarez
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
2
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
3
Mark Burnett
My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.
4
Carmen Busquets
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
5
Binod Chaudhary
When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.
6
David Einhorn
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
7
Dhani Harrison
Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
8
P. J. Harvey
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
9
Danny Huston
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
10
Katharine Isabelle
I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAMILY BUSINESS»

Discover the use of family business in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to family business and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Family Business 2
The members of the Duncan family try to juggle their day jobs running a respectable car dealership with their criminal activities controlling most of the East Coast's drug traffic.
Carl Weber with Treasure Hernandez, 2013
2
Family Business
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Ernesto Poza, 2013
3
Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business
How do families move through generational changes in leadership, from anticipation to transfer, and then separation and retirement? This book is divided into three sections that present a multidimensional model of a family business.
Kelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, 2013
4
Family Business: Key Issues
This book is a collection of articles by leading thinkers and practitioners on the family business which covers such issues as assuring a healthy family business, family strategy, governance and succession
Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, John L. Ward, 2004
5
Understanding the Family Business
This book will provide readers with an introductory overview of family business, the most prevalent form of business in the world.
Keanon Alderson, 2011
6
Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned From ...
John L. Ward is a leading world expert on the family business. In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the most successful and long-lasting families in business.
John L. Ward, 2004
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Family Business as Paradox
Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and over time, perhaps, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term ...
Amy Schuman, Stacy Stutz, John L Ward, 2010
8
Getting Along in Family Business: The Relationship ...
This is a guide for business owning families and their professional advisors.
Edwin A. Hoover, Colette Lombard Hoover, 1999
9
Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A ...
Using case studies from many different cultures and continents Father–Daughter Succession in Family Business looks at the cultural and other changes which have led to daughters gaining influence in more and more family businesses and the ...
Dr Daphne Halkias, Professor Celina Smith, 2012
10
Family Business and Social Capital
The genesis for this book is a conference on family business and social capital in which a wide variety of issues were presented and discussed. Participants included academics, family business owners and business advisors.
R. L. Sorenson, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAMILY BUSINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term family business is used in the context of the following news items.
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Smoke and the City: Marijuana matriarchs of New York
The women had the money, thanks to family business Peckham Industries, a titan of road construction and maintenance with a 92-year history. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
2
Philippe Sereys de Rothschild takes over the family business
The first Baron Philippe was a charismatic playboy-poet who landed in France as part of the D-Day landings, raced Bugatti Grand Prix cars and ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
3
Family Business Act seeks to extend incentives, benefits
The New Family Business Act was the theme of a business breakfast organised by the Gozo Business Chamber and Bank of Valletta in ... «MaltaToday, Jul 15»
4
Rani's next is strictly family business
Whatever it means, it's strictly family business for her. So engrossed is this talented actress in her family's production house that she even ... «Arab News, Jul 15»
5
WA consumer watchdog puts brakes on family's backyard car business
... knew very well that their activities were illegal but, not only did they continue to break the law, they then turned it into a family business.". «WA today, Jul 15»
6
The Family Business Takes A Very Dark Turn In Super Slick Trailer …
Europe has been a hotbed of slick crime thrillers in recent years, the continent breathing a fresh and exciting life into this most American of ... «TwitchFilm, Jul 15»
7
Family Business Roundup: Country Garden Holdings, Vivendi, and …
Chinese real estate conglomerate Country Garden Holdings, owned by the country's second richest woman Yang Huiyan, is planning to spin ... «Campden FB, Jul 15»
8
10 Big Family Business Stocks That Beat the Market
Wall Street always looks for an edge when deciding what stocks to recommend. One of the most unusual angles that investors have likely never ... «24/7 Wall St., Jul 15»
9
'The emotional stakes are high': lessons for taking on the family
My clients do not know this is a family business. For me work and family are very separate. My father has been an incredible mentor to me and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Rep. Joe Kennedy III Tries To Make His Own Name In The Family
WASHINGTON — When Joe Kennedy III won a seat in Congress in 2012, he was getting in the family business. One Kennedy or another had ... «WBUR, Jul 15»

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