All 3 Uses
proprietor
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
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- The Lincolns had given the Fords enough advance notice for the proprietors to decorate and join together the two theater boxes — seven and eight — that, by removal of a partition, formed the president's box at the theater.†
p. 11.2
- Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt's tavern, went to bed.†
p. 71.4 *
- The proprietor of the house led the soldiers to a second-story bedroom.†
p. 164.6
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.