Proprietor

Word PROPRIETOR
Character 10
Hyphenation pro pri e tor
Pronunciations /pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ/

Definitions and meanings of "Proprietor"

What do we mean by proprietor?

One who has legal title to something; an owner. noun

One who owns or owns and manages a business or other such establishment. noun

One who has the legal right or exclusive title to something; an owner: as, the proprietor of a farm or of a mill. noun

One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner. noun

An owner noun

A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor noun

One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner noun

One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration noun

(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business noun

An owner.

A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.

One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.

(history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Proprietor

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The word "proprietor" in example sentences

There are many comfortable-looking large houses, generally built according to the customs of the country whereof the proprietor is a native. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

For National Poetry Month (April, to civilians), GottaBook's proprietor is promising new work by some of the finest kids 'poets in the land. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Happy Trails proprietor is a huge Frank Zappa fan, his windows are a testament to his love ♥ This place is also linked in history to our local Stairway Denied — Zeppelin tribute band — and the Alchemist, our local independent infozine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hazel, the proprietor, is in her sixties, and it's a toss-up as to whether she's more attached to her mother or her cats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The proprietor is an interesting guy named Gilberto Penzo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A humble proletarian hotel proprietor is subsequently pole-axed by the super-structure of the capitalist means-of-production in a dramatic example of Asiatic despotism at work throughout the totality of the imperialist capitalist system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though the long-term proprietor, Julie Griffiths, hates the term, this pub high in the Chiltern hills, lays claim to being the original gastropub. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It turns out that, as has been speculated by a certain proprietor of this site for at least two weeks now, we may now be nearing proof that the Bush Junta was using its Go Go Gadget listening devices to spy on US journalists, meaning none other than Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The proprietor is reeeeally proud of his royal heritage. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Its proprietor is apparently having a birthday today and in honour of the occasion would like people to spread the word about the blog and 'bring new people onto the CC love train.' ❋ Unknown (2006)

OK, so it's a little oblique, but it did get the idea out into the public sphere that this site's proprietor is spoken for. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The proprietor is a squat, stoop-shouldered, pock-marked, white-haired Cuban, whose state of mind is one of amazement in that the handcart, on which he never laid eyes before, should have been found on his premises. ❋ Unknown (1914)

I called the proprietor to me -- a little pale-faced man with a black moustache, who had been hovering in the background. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Will you call the proprietor of the hotel, McCann? ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

If I have sometimes used the word proprietor, I have used it as the abstract name of a metaphysical being, whose reality breathes in every individual, -- not alone in a privileged few. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Calorossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the proprietor of a studio there. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

When you are done, he calls the proprietor at the top of his voice to wait on you, and walks away whistling between his teeth. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

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