Proprietor Meaning
/pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn owner.
nounA sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
Sentence Examples
The proprietor of the store worked at the head of his employees.
I am the proprietor of an apartment in Bejaia, Algeria.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the small shop decided to retire after 30 years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the small bookshop had run it for thirty years and knew every customer by name.
Word Origin & History
Probably from proprietary + -or.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors."
— 1879, Chas. McArmor, The New Handbook of Vienna […] , 2nd edition, Otto Maass, page 106:
"The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins."
— 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the small shop decided to retire after 30 years.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the small bookshop had run it for thirty years and knew every customer by name.