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proprietor
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  • The proprietor said "There has never been such a fish."  (source)
    proprietor = owner of the business
  • The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man.  (source)
    proprietor = owner of a business
  • And that raised another question: How would the new proprietors treat a Jewish landlord?†  (source)
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  • Up front, behind a long, grooved wooden counter, sat Ida Paine, the hawknosed, farsighted proprietor of the store.†  (source)
  • She also spoke of finding another store to patronize, one where the proprietors were more concerned about the welfare of the community.†  (source)
  • Everyone referred to the baby by name, almost in a tone of proud proprietorship, but no one knew who Chun belonged to or where he or she had come from.†  (source)
  • In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.†  (source)
  • He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.†  (source)
  • I'm to ask for the proprietor of Cook's.†  (source)
  • Then Betty's Luncheonette, which is under new ownership again: sooner or later its proprietors get fed up, or die, or move to Florida.†  (source)
  • Rearden noted that if he had resented as impertinence Francisco's manner of proprietorship in his office, he himself was now guilty of the same attitude-because he offered no explanation for his visit, but crossed the room and sat down in an armchair, casually, as if he were at home.†  (source)
  • In spite of Petra's continued propensity to slip at any moment into what, in terms of sound, would be a deafening bellow, we all felt a proprietorial pride in her progress.†  (source)
  • He walked in while Samantha, the proprietor, was busy, asking for a number four.†  (source)
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