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small business

private business with relatively small number of employees, capital, or revenue
Class type of: business, point of sale Q1109680
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Summary

small business is an ethnological term[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: Germany[2]
  • Instance of: economic term[3]
  • Subclass of: business[4], point of sale[5]
  • Opposite of: big business[6], big business[7]
  • Facet of: compact city[8]
  • Partially coincident with: sole proprietorship[9], startup company[10]
  • Different from: micro-enterprise[11], small and medium enterprises[12], self-employment[13]

Related Entities

business DarkArts Studios small and medium enterprises

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → small-business
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: small-business, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959885|small business (#289959885)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → sole proprietorship, startup company
    Aliases → —
    Facet of → compact city
    Topic's main category → Category:Small business
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 8245, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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