mom-and-pop
adjective
1
: being or relating to a small owner-operated business
a mom-and-pop grocery
2
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Necessity has transformed this country into a nation of drone-makers, who churn them out from factory assembly lines and mom-and-pop operations like the one in the basement apartment in Kyiv.
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Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025
Consolidation: With Christian denominations in particular, Reinhard says, undifferentiated neighborhood churches have lost their base to large churches, much like how neighborhood mom-and-pop stores lost out to Walmart and, later, Amazon.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 11 Apr. 2025
News reports from New York City, which has seen one of the country's largest surges in retail theft, show mom-and-pop store owners living in fear of the next retail attack, forced to allow only one or two people into the store at a time.
—Freddy Kuo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
During that time, mom-and-pop traders mostly dumped stocks when institutional investors did.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
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Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025
Consolidation: With Christian denominations in particular, Reinhard says, undifferentiated neighborhood churches have lost their base to large churches, much like how neighborhood mom-and-pop stores lost out to Walmart and, later, Amazon.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 11 Apr. 2025
News reports from New York City, which has seen one of the country's largest surges in retail theft, show mom-and-pop store owners living in fear of the next retail attack, forced to allow only one or two people into the store at a time.
—Freddy Kuo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
During that time, mom-and-pop traders mostly dumped stocks when institutional investors did.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
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