(Mainland China) a small privately owned business or self-employed individual; a person or family-run economic entity that manages its own funds and is responsible for its own profits and losses

individually owned industrial or commercial business entity

an economic system where the means of production and the resulting products are owned by the individual worker as an individual

the development of an individual organism or a part of an organism from the earliest stage to maturity; ontogenesis

An economic system based on individual labor and private ownership of the means of production

The study of the economic behavior of individual consumers and firms; the branch of economics that focuses on individual parts of the economy