---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7108"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "7108"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/7108"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Women’s Business Enterprise Development"
---

# §7108. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter—

- (1) the term “Administration” means the Small Business Administration;
- (2) the term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Small Business [Administration](#1);
- (3) the term “control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions concerning a business;
- (4) the term “Council” means the National [Women](#7)’s Business Council, established under [section 7105 of this title](/usc/15/7105.md);
- (5) the term “Interagency Committee” means the Interagency Committee on [Women](#7)’s Business Enterprise, established under [section 7101 of this title](/usc/15/7101.md);
- (6) the term “operate” means being actively involved in the day-to-day management of a business;
- (7) the term “women’s business enterprise” means—
  - (A) a business or businesses owned by a woman or a group of [women](#7); or
  - (B) the establishment, maintenance, or development of a business or businesses by a woman or a group of [women](#7); and
- (8) the term “women-owned business” means a small business which a woman or a group of [women](#7)—
  - (A) [control](#3) and [operate](#6); and
  - (B) own not less than 51 percent of the business.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–533, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 103–403, title IV, § 413, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4197.)