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Chapter 18
Forms Of Business
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sole Trader | A person who owns and runs his or her own business. |
| Private Limited Company | Formed when between 1 and 50 people put together money to start a new business with limited liability. |
| Limited liability | Means that if a private limited company goes bankrupt, i.e. has debts they are unable to pay back, the shareholders will only lose the amount they invested in the company. |
| Co-operatives | Organisations formed by people who join together to achieve a particular objective that they could not achieve on their own. |
| Privatisation | The sale of a semi-state company by the government. |
| Sate Ownership | Semi-state companies or state-sponsored bodies who are owned by the state(government). |