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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
Recent Examples of proprietor from the Web
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As the porter, Daniel is a drunk who gets kicked around – literally – by the proprietor (John Pribyl), a onetime military man running the hotel with his wife (Tracy Michelle Arnold).
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The answer to that question is: TyJuan Mickey, the proprietor of the Sista's Catering booth at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center during Essence Music Festival.
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Hotel occupancy in Aswan fell by more than 70 percent between 2010 and 2015, says hotelier Hussein Mohammed, proprietor of the Suheil House.
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The meeting was attended by several downtown proprietors, ranging from restaurants to coffee shops to supermarkets.
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The proprietors of this championship are preying on those dreams and taking advantage of them.
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Each proprietor independently subdivided their land in 1810, 1813-1824 and 1832 respectively, becoming three faubourgs, named des Religieuses (or nuns), Lafayette and Livaudais.
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What: In this Alfred Hitchcock classic, a secretary (Leigh) who is on the run for embezzling, checks into the secluded Bates Motel, whose peculiar proprietor (Perkins) is manipulated by his domineering mother.
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At a mountain hideaway in India, the proprietor received us by pressing a red-powder dot onto our foreheads.
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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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