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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proprietor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a newspaper proprietorBritish 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 proprietor in full.
▪ A person infringes by doing any of these acts without the licence of the registered proprietor.
▪ The registration of a notice is a friendly proceeding carried out, in general, with the co-operation of the registered proprietor.
sole
▪ On the facts, however, the accused was not the sole proprietor.
▪ With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
▪ By May 1797, when the paper was finally suppressed, they were its sole remaining proprietors.
■ NOUN
garage
▪ Did the garage proprietor also make a contract of sale in relation to the World Cup coins?
▪ First, they claimed that the garage proprietor made no contract at all with the customer in relation to the World Cup coins.
▪ There was not just one contract made between the garage proprietor and the customer.
newspaper
▪ Similarly the moral crusaders, newspaper proprietors and muck-raking journalists should be called off.
▪ But for the newspaper proprietors, outside competition is not always a problem.
▪ He has been in contact with Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor.
▪ Last weekend it was offered to Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor, for £16m.
▪ This may not have been very constructive, but, except towards the newspaper proprietors, it did not sound particularly bitter.
▪ Meanwhile the opinions of newspaper proprietors played a disproportionate role in determining politicians' views of what the public wanted.
▪ Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor, is one of his contacts.
▪ The same goes for certain other immigrants, such as newspaper proprietors.
■ VERB
ask
▪ I poked my head under the dripping awning of a newsstand and asked the proprietor.
▪ Ishmael then enters the public room and asks the proprietor, Peter Coffin, for a bed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Proprietor Ginny Gavin serves fresh croissants and fruit at breakfast to guests at her inn.
▪ As proprietors of the general store, Mr and Mrs Stacey knew everything that went on in the town.
▪ Dan Conrad, the proprietor of Conrad's Bookstore, says that small stores such as his offer service and convenience.
▪ Eddy Shah, the former national newspaper proprietor
▪ My father had fallen victim to an unscrupulous garage proprietor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bed and breakfast was booked solid for the dates I wanted, and the proprietor of it suggested the Ridgemount.
▪ Bogie, the beer-bellied proprietor, says he feels it's his duty to stay open.
▪ I knew the proprietor must be struggling to make a living, because we could no longer afford to extend him any credit.
▪ I poked my head under the dripping awning of a newsstand and asked the proprietor.
▪ The proprietors of Angels in Horden, near Peterlee, have been told they must follow a stringent set of conditions.
▪ The offer is made when the proprietor of the machine holds it out as being ready to receive the money.
▪ Unlike the owners of a corporation, sole proprietors and partners do not draw salaries as such.
▪ With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proprietor

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proprietor

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.

Wiktionary
proprietor

n. An owner.

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WordNet
proprietor

n. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" [syn: owner]

Wikipedia
Proprietor
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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.

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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.