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US
/pɹəˈpɹaɪətɝ/
]
[ UK /pɹəpɹˈaɪətɐ/ ]
[ UK /pɹəpɹˈaɪətɐ/ ]
NOUN
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(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
he is the owner of a chain of restaurants
How To Use proprietor In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- He put a proprietorial arm around her.
- But a quick word with the proprietor of the local service station reassured me otherwise.
- The proprietor is an interesting guy named Gilberto Penzo. Cool ship models
- It's also much more expensive to clean up and much more damaging to the proprietor seen as they usually cannot use a room I've just vacated - not until the fumigators have finished anyway.
- This requirement arises only where such a person demands to know the name and address of the proprietor and not otherwise.
- Though the long-term proprietor, Julie Griffiths, hates the term, this pub high in the Chiltern hills, lays claim to being the original gastropub. The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer
- The proprietor, Bob Blanc, has plans to construct what he calls ‘boatel’ units - simple accommodations for the yachties using the marina.
- It is not difficult to see why Gregory and his supporters denounced both lay proprietorship and clerical marriage.
- For National Poetry Month (April, to civilians), GottaBook's proprietor is promising new work by some of the finest kids 'poets in the land. Chicken Spaghetti: