The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sole trader
Sole trader \Sole trader\ A feme sole trader.
Wiktionary
sole trader
n. A type of business enterprise or proprietorship which is owned by one person who is fully liable for the company's debts and fulfilment of contracts with his/her personal wealth unless incorporated.
Usage examples of "sole trader".
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.