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Definition of Proprietor
1. Noun. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business. "He is the owner of a chain of restaurants"
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Specialized synonyms: Bookseller, Lease Giver, Lessor, Letter, Patron, Proprietress, Newspaper Publisher, Publisher, Renter, Restauranter, Restaurateur, Saloon Keeper, Timberman
Generic synonyms: Businessman, Man Of Affairs
Derivative terms: Own, Ownership, Ownership, Ownership, Proprietary, Proprietorship
Definition of Proprietor
1. n. One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
Definition of Proprietor
1. Noun. An owner ¹
2. Noun. A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor ¹
3. Noun. One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner ¹
4. Noun. (history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proprietor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proprietor
Literary usage of Proprietor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
""Freight on all orders, the invoice price of which amounts to $100 or more, to
be prepaid by the proprietor; otherwise, freight to be paid by consignee. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The proprietor or owner of a thing, in the current acceptation of the word, ...
Of all these persons he alone is called the proprietor who has the highest ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The proprietor or owner of a thing, in the current acceptation of the word, ...
Of all these persons he alone is called the proprietor who has the highest ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1860)
"Й1-4 90.000 600 Asuncion, jurisdiction of Mariel, proprietor Dorf Lorenzo Pedro
8813 tt,SOO «« Conception, or Echeverría, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The proprietor or owner of a thing, in the current acceptation of the word, ...
Of all these persons he alone is called the proprietor who has the highest ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"“This agreement made by and between The Dr. Miles Medical Company, a corporation,
of Elkhart, Indiana, hereafter referred to as the proprietor, ..."
7. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"The last-mentioned feature of the system appears very clearly after 1660, when
Charles Calvert was governor and afterward proprietor. ..."
8. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"D. Francisco Pedro y Herrera 8014 17000 "\Ч Quina de Tolo, jurisdiction of
Trinidad, proprietor Don Justo G. Cantero 6.2U5 fi ..."
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