0 a company that is owned by one person or a small group of people, for example a family, and whose shares are not traded on a stock market: --
Many of these small private businesses employ fewer than ten people.
1 a company that is not owned by the government: --
private and state-owned businesses
2 all the companies that are owned and controlled by one person or a small group of people, considered as a whole: --
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.