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proprietor
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Wikipedia
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Ownership
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proprietor \Pro*pri"e*tor\, n. [For older proprietary: cf. F. propri['e]tarie.] One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An owner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "owner, by royal grant, of an American colony," probably from proprietary (n.) in sense "property owner" (late 15c., see proprietary ). In general sense of "one who holds something as property" it is attested from 1640s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a newspaper proprietor British English (= owner ) ▪ Ultimately, it’s the newspaper proprietor who decides what goes into the newspaper. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE registered ▪ The form should name the registered ...
Usage examples of proprietor.
He sipped his anisette, regretting that the proprietor had served it to him in such an ugly tumbler.
The Antik part, and a second sign that presumably gave the name of the proprietor, Nadasdi Gyula.
It belongs solely to proprietors of the softer sex, whom fortune has indulged as you perceive with every thing that is calculated to give new relish to the pursuits of life, and beguile the lazy foot of time.
But if a Norman town was close and dull, the Norman country was notoriously fresh and entertaining, and the next morning Bernard got into a caleche, with his luggage, and bade its proprietor drive him along the coast.
The proprietor of the borough, a good humoured sporting extravagant, has been compelled to yield his influence in St.
They are questioning the proprietors about such men as Marotte and Doxol.
Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash.
And so on that momentous day I became proprietor of Nonsuch Books, where I have lived ever since in the disorder of several thousand morocco- and buckram-bound companions.
When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance.
My bill of supplies amounted to one hundred and twenty-six dollars, and when, without a word, I drew a draft for the amount, the proprietor of the outfitting store, as a pelon, made me a present of two fine silk handkerchiefs.
This gossip made Godefroid hope he should get some assistance out of the woman, who presently said, while praising the healthfulness of the two rooms she offered him, that she was not a portress, but the confidential agent of the proprietor, for whom she managed many of the affairs of the house.
One glance sufficed to identify him: with a surly nod the potman ducked behind a partition to call the proprietor.
Spring Street in New York, which would now be forgotten to history except that one of its early proprietors had the uncommon prescience in 1905 to introduce Americans to a dish for which they would develop an abiding addiction: the pizza.
Eliste proffered a silver ring, at which the proprietor scarcely glanced.
Convention as by its predecessors, was based on the private proprietorship of land and on increasing the number of small proprietors.