Is a private business same as an incorporated business?

Question

also how do i find out if a company is corporated or not?

Answer 1

"Private business" means a company is not publically owned, but privately owned ie one by one or a few individuals.  "Incorporated" means the business is setup as a corporation of some type.  Private businesses can be incorporated or not, public businesses are pretty much all incorporated but these refer to different things (how the company is owned versus how the company is set up).

To find out if a company is incorporated I'd just call them up and ask (if the business name has "Inc." at the end, or course it is incorporated but if not it could still be incorporated).

Answer 2

Corporated doesn't make it past the spell checker.