small businesses
11Small business software — has been for many years any software that a small business owner could appropriate to get jobs done. Over the past twenty years, however, the most pressing issue for small businesses has been to organize their financial records mostly due to… …
12Small Business Administration — ˌSmall ˈBusiness Adminiˌstration abbreviation SBA noun FINANCE COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS a US government organization that helps small businesses, for example by lending them money at low interest rates: • The Small Business Administration will help …
13small business — UK US noun [countable] [singular small business plural small businesses] business a business that has a small number of employees, usually less than 100 Thesaurus: general types of business or company …
14Small Business Rate Relief — UK US noun [U] (ABBREVIATION SBRR) TAX ► in the UK, a special reduction in local taxes paid by small businesses: »The Government is making changes to the SBRR scheme to provide help with the fixed costs of running a small business …
15Small Business Administration — A federal agency which provides assistance of all kinds, including loans, to small businesses. Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations …
16Small Business Administration - SBA — The Small Business Administration (SBA) is an autonomous U.S. government agency that was established in 1953 to promote and strengthen the overall economy by assisting small businesses. The SBA provides counseling to help people start and grow… …
17Small office/home office — The modern concept of small office/home office or SoHo, or small or home office or single office/home office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are… …
18small — [[t]smɔ͟ːl[/t]] ♦ smaller, smallest 1) ADJ GRADED A small person, thing, or amount of something is not large in physical size. She is small for her age... The window was far too small for him to get through... Next door to the garage is a small… …
19Small Business Innovation Research — The Small Business Innovation Research (or SBIR) program is a United States Government program, coordinated by the Small Business Administration, in which a portion of the extramural research budgets of several government agencies are reserved… …
20small business administration — US federal agency formed in 1953 that protects the interests of small businesses and grants low interest loans to qualified small businesses and also makes certain that such businesses receive a fair portion of government contracts, sba …
