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sole proprietor

n. (context legal English) the person who owns and controls a sole proprietorship

Usage examples of "sole proprietor".

The outcome of this principle affords us a glimpse of an order of things in which the State, sole proprietor of real-estate, sole capitalist, sole manufacturer, sole trader, having all Frenchmen in its pay and service, would assign to each one his task according to his aptitude, and distribute to each one his rations according to his wants.

By the time he and Sharon stepped onto the plane, Armstrong was confident that within twenty-four hours he would be the sole proprietor of a national newspaper second only in circulation to the Daily Citizen.

FORTY-THREE Meetings ull Moler, owner and sole proprietor of Drover Jack's tavern, was cleaning up the mess from last night's fight.

He's called the Scorpion because a number of his competitors and business partners mysteriously disappeared, leaving him the sole proprietor of several large and very profitable corporations.

In fact, no one in Koth seemed to have Figgis' extraordinary flair for mathematics, making him the sole proprietor of the strange machine's knowledge.

I moved to Hanover and became an antiquarian bookseller, sole proprietor of the shop called The Eloquent Page.

You may know it was a whollyowned private company with himself as sole proprietor.

He was the original inventor and sole proprietor of the Leeming-Finagle something-or-other.

Just the kelp remained, sole proprietor of the world beyond the outpost's perimeter.