The Only Use of
proprietor
in
Animal Farm
- There had been a time — not that he, or any of the present company, had shared such sentiments — but there had been a time when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would not say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbors.†
p. 137..1
Definition:
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(proprietor) the owner of a business