Definition of proprietor
1 : one granted ownership of a colony (such as one of the original American colonies) and full prerogatives of establishing a government and distributing land
2a : a person who has the legal right or exclusive title to something : ownerb : one having an interest (such as control or present use) less than absolute and exclusive right
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Examples of proprietor in a Sentence
She is the proprietor of the store.
the proprietor of a used-car dealership
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One grateful proprietor put Stackhouse’s picture on a wall.
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That would be especially true of companies that have a more tenuous moral case against birth control, or whose employees don’t subscribe to the same strict religious code that the proprietors do.
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To get there, though, requires surviving a Darwinian climb up the ladder at Goldie's, an L.A. club pretty clearly patterned after the Comedy Store and its proprietor, Mitzi Shore.
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Obama's Hair Design was incorporated with the state in November 2008 — the same month Obama won the presidency — by the proprietor of what was then Ossama's hair salon on South Dearborn Street in the Loop.
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Rogelio Gonzalez, a cantina proprietor in Atlacomulco, says the PRI deserves to win.
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The United States Department of Justice—Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, proprietor—has intervened on the side of a corrupt corporation and against a serviceman done dirt by that corrupt corporation.
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Auctions are in Will’s blood -- his family is the longtime proprietor of Roland Auctions -- and while many performers wait tables or take catering gigs between acting jobs, Will returns to his roots in the auction world.
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Andy Page, Dark UFO’s British proprietor, acknowledges that pageviews increase when the site posts a juicy spoiler, but disputes the notion put forward by content creators that insider Lost info translates into a lucrative business.
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Origin and Etymology of proprietor
alteration of 1proprietary
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: a person who owns a business or property
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