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the owner of a businessMore rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything — such as a trademark.
- After 40 years of greeting guests in person, the proprietor is retiring.
proprietor = the owner of a business
- No tax can be laid on land which will not affect the proprietor of millions of acres as well as the proprietor of a single acre.Alexander Hamilton -- The Federalist Papers
- The proprietor said "There has never been such a fish."Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- the luggage-store proprietorRay Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- The proprietor came over to take their order.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- Dick, standing by me was looking round the company with an air of proprietorship in them, I thought.William Morris -- News from Nowhere
- Henry Kelly, proprietor of a tobacco shop and soda fountain called the Kelly Fruit until Prom Night leveled it, has no plans to rebuild.Stephen King -- Carrie
- A faded blue and white sign gave the rates and the proprietor's name.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- Turner, the proprietor, stood at one end, his face livid, his hands aloft and shaking.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- I tried the number again while the obliging proprietor dug up his two coldest ones from the bottom of the deep freeze.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Man is master and proprietor, says Descartes, whereas the beast is merely an automaton, an animated machine, amachinaanimata .Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- I'm to ask for the proprietor of Cook's.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- The brightly painted wooden booths selling lottery tickets, the proprietors' hopes preying on hope—"Bank Lotto, New York."Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- "I am glad you have been able to sleep," he said, taking her hand with anxious proprietorship—an act which gave her a pleasant surprise.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Herold was glib, boasting to the Confederate proprietor that they'd killed the president.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- They're proprietors of a sort, but we're the landowners.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- " "It's a new shade," said the woman proprietor, getting it out of the window.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- If the editor does not produce a saleable edition the proprietor sacks him.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- The proprietor would give you a good price.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
proprietor = owner of the business
proprietor = the owner of a business
proprietor = owner of a business
proprietor = the owner of a business
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