All 18 Uses
proprietor
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Light in August
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- The proprietor was among them.†
Chpt 8 *
- He noticed, saw, the proprietor for the first time.†
Chpt 8
- Like the other men, the proprietor wore a hat and was smoking.†
Chpt 8
- He believed that the blonde woman behind the cigar case was looking at him, and the proprietor too, across whose face now the smoke of the cigarette would have become quite still in its lazy vaporing.†
Chpt 8
- Then the proprietor spoke a single word.†
Chpt 8
- It was not the proprietor.†
Chpt 8
- The proprietor was there; waiting, Joe heard him at last, in the dirty apron, speaking past the cigarette: "What is it?†
Chpt 8
- The proprietor's voice was quiet.†
Chpt 8
- Even from the rear of the room the proprietor could see it, since he said, "What's that for?†
Chpt 8
- Well, they found that nigger's trail at last," the proprietor said.†
Chpt 13
- They ain't caught him yet," the proprietor said.†
Chpt 13
- Then the proprietor was saying, "Was that all today?"†
Chpt 13
- He began to fumble in his pocket, the proprietor watching him.†
Chpt 13
- The proprietor stopped two or three of them as they were about to roll off the counter.†
Chpt 13
- What's this for?" the proprietor said.†
Chpt 13
- The proprietor was watching him, curious.†
Chpt 13
- It's this hot weather," the proprietor said.†
Chpt 13
- 'Perhaps that is all I ever did, have ever done,' he thinks, thinking of the faces: the faces of old men naturally dubious of his youth and jealous of the church which they were putting into his hands almost as a father surrenders a bride: the faces of old men lined by that sheer accumulation of frustration and doubt which is so often the other side of the picture of hale and respected full years—the side, by the way, which the subject and proprietor of the picture has to look at, cannot escape looking at.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(proprietor) the owner of a business
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything -- such as a trademark.