proprietorship

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Recent Examples of proprietorship True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, but since Craig's departure and the recent shake-up in proprietorship, no new Bond or Bond director has yet been announced. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025 In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon. Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 July 2024 Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship? William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 The awards — which have been given out to local proprietorships for over three decades — this year were sponsored by HarborOne Bank. BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023 Elon antagonists railed against his proprietorship. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022 Yet Maphorisa’s response to the Davido fan seemed to encourage a fuller understanding of the hybrids rather than expressing proprietorship over them. Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022 The American antimonopoly vision also played a foundational role in the decades-long fight to break the slave power, which many Americans considered a monopolistic threat to the system of small proprietorship that the U.S. government had cultivated. Barry C. Lynn, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021 However, a proprietorship can only have one owner. Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proprietorship
ownership
Noun
  • Rays fans hope habitual cost-cutting will end with new ownership and an influx of capital.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Music fans then, like in the decades before — spanning everything from wax cylinders to cassettes to compact discs — had ownership of their music collection.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Proprietorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietorship. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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