proprietorship

Examples of proprietorship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 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 However, a proprietorship can only have one owner. Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020 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 Your initial choice of your business form – proprietorship, corporate, LLC, partnership or other – will determine the afterlife of your business. Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2022

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“Proprietorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietorship. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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