proprietor
Other forms: proprietors
Someone who owns a business or a property is a proprietor. A bookstore proprietor might wish she became a librarian instead so the books would come back.
The first part of proprietor sounds a lot like "property," and a proprietor is someone with ownership of property. Sometimes a proprietor oversees the business, such as a restaurant proprietor who is also a chef or hostess, and other times a proprietor owns many businesses and has different people running them. A proprietor of a local bakery might make and sell his own donuts, while the proprietor of a chain of donut shops might work from an office managing the people who manage the stores.
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(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a businesssynonyms: ownertypes:booksellerthe proprietor of a bookstoreletterowner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hirepatronthe proprietor of an innproprietressa woman proprietorrenteran owner of property who receives payment for its use by another personsaloon keeperthe proprietor of a saloontimbermanan owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumberingpress lorda powerful newspaper proprietortype of:businessman, man of affairsa person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
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a holder or proprietor of landsynonyms: landholder, landowner, property ownertypes:abutterthe owner of contiguous propertyfranklina landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birthfreeholderthe owner of a freeholdlairda landownerlandlorda landowner who leases to otherssquirean English country landownerlandladya landlord who is a womanyeomana free man who cultivates his own landtype of:holdera person who holds something
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