Sample sentences for PROPRIETOR

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Definition

the owner of a business

More 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

proprietor = owner of the business

the luggage-store proprietor
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

proprietor = the owner of a business

The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

proprietor = owner of a business

The proprietor came over to take their order.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

proprietor = the owner of a business

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

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