possessor

noun

as in owner
one who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership she was the possessor of several acres of land in the country

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Recent Examples of possessor The most recent possessor of the objects reached out to the FBI after looking into the artifacts’ suspicious provenance. — News Desk, Artforum, 24 Aug. 2026 Tasty-morsel entrepreneurship stands in here for a modern kind of Protestant work ethic, but gets sprinkled with the sense that cuteness, like beauty for older women, is a commodity in itself that the possessor can exploit to their own advantage. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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  1. owner
  2. proprietor
Noun
  • Most of the furniture comes from the owner’s personal collection, gathered over the course of a lifetime from visits to flea markets all over Europe.
    — Julia Wytrazek, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Supermarket owners described throwing out nearly a dumpster’s worth of frozen food.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of owner
Noun
  • The restaurant’s proprietor Ricky McMenemy, who has worked there for 35 years, will become a commercial tenant of the National Trust.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • McAvoy also entrusted some of his gold to minicab proprietor Brian Perry.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of proprietor

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“Possessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/possessor. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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