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• To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.From the entry coterminous
• The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Unnatural Death. From the entry fatigue
• Glen “Hooping Cough” Hodges is proprietor and manager of Nine Chakras, the new retro gaming barcade in town.2019, Darren Johnson, Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018. From the entry barcade
• By offering such incentives, the proprietors created a social position, the quitrenter, that did not exist in Northeastern Scotland.2014, Ned C. Landsman, Scotland and Its First American Colony, 1683-1765, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry quitrenter
• The proprietor of the store was rude, insulting and accusative.1984 April 14, William F. Orrell, “Bad Business”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry accusative
• He commissioned the proprietor of an ancient lorry to deliver a load of turf mould to the rear of the hall.1984, John B. Keane, Man of the Triple Name, Brandon, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry tatarara
• Hills, proprietor of the Thames Iron Works.1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVIII, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from…. From the entry wise
• Now the proprietor is seeking the identity of the teeth-less person in order that they may be restored.1925 March 29, The Oregon Statesman, seventy-fourth year, Salem, Or., page 5. From the entry teeth-less
• A man in shirt sleeves, presumably Del Snafflin the proprietor, shaving a man who had a large Adam's apple.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC. From the entry Adam's apple
• It was founded by its proprietor, Mr.1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Psmith, Journalist. From the entry yellow journalism
• So I told the proprietor that two people couldn’t make a toilet with one small coffee-potful of hot water.1911 August, Burton E[gbert] Stevenson, “Among Dutch Inns”, in The Spell of Holland: The Story of a Pilgrimage to the Land of Dykes and…. From the entry coffee-potful
• Gaston Huet, the proprietor, whose story is recounted in “Wine and War,” had returned after five years in a German P.O.W. camp.2022 October 6, Eric Asimov, “Echoes of a World War in Wines From the Early 1940s”, in The New York Times. From the entry P.O.W.
• The proprietors of a bakery realize they “can do anything”—like, add a “chookie” (cheesecake cookie) to their menu—in the latest from GoDaddy.2022 October 12, Ad Age, Creativity Staff, “Watch the newest commercials from Hilton, GoDaddy, Burger King and more”, in Ad Age, archived…. From the entry chookie
• A beautiful riad, full of the works of one of the proprietors, who is a painter and sculptor as well as an interior designer.2010, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Morocco, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN. From the entry riad
• The proprietor was a "Zip" — a Sicilian-born mobster — who was running a gambling operation that cut into Godfather Gotti's turf.1988, New York Magazine, volume 21, number 16, page 66. From the entry mobster
• Then the tramway proprietors decided to electrify their line, and cut the fares by half, and the railway was soon feeling the pinch.1954 May, H. Fayle, “Dublin Suburban Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 300. From the entry feel the pinch
• The proprietor was at least as large as Hyperion Weems with a huge head of curly brass-yellow hair and a vast chest-protector beard.1948, L. Sprague De Camp, Fletcher Pratt, The Carnelian Cube, New York: Lancer Books, page 82. From the entry chest-protector beard
• The countess is a considerable landed proprietor and she keeps the hotel in order that she may there sell the estate eggs.1915 February 14, Byron Lomax, “Behind the Russian Lines in Poland”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 35, number 150, Kansas City, Mo.…. From the entry countessly
• The proprietor of the giddy-go-round, swings, and cocoanut-shies wanted to know from whom, in this world or another, he could recover damages.1914 August, Rudyard Kipling, “The Vortex”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 401. From the entry giddy-go-round
• LOUD, editor and proprietor of The Rockland Independent, died yesterday in Rockland, Mass., in the house where she was born sixty-six years ago.1911 April 7, “Obituary Notes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Hulda
• “The mold is what gives the cheese its character,” says Tonda Corrente, Orlando’s foremost cheesemongress (yes, I made that up) and proprietor of La Femme du Fromage.2020 October 8, Amy Drew Thompson, “Don’t break the mold: Enjoying moldy cheese, for some, is a process — an acquired taste”, in Orlando…. From the entry cheesemongress
• In the region of prosperous western Anatolia and the Black Sea coast, where commercial agriculture prevailed,a land reform designed to create small peasant proprietors was an irrelevency.2014, Malcolm Yapp, The Near East since the First World War: A History to 1995. From the entry irrelevency
• The episode finds Springfield in the midst of a hellacious blizzard that, not surprisingly, brings out the joker in the town’s resident morning zoo proprietors Marty and Bill.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please…. From the entry bring out
• An accomplished performer on the gaida, the proprietor would close his store in order to ‘play for the girls’ as they drank coffee and ate zelnik.1995, Lillian Petroff, “Community Life”, in Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940 (Ethnic and Immigration…. From the entry zelnik
• “Hedge wizard” is a term that’s come up in my campaign to describe the proprietors of small “magic shops” in villages and cities in AD&D® campaigns.1990 November, Gregg Sharp, “Hedge Wizards”, in Dragon, volume 15, number 6, page 19. From the entry hedge wizard
• Thus the service-tenant may be legally 'fareworthy' but if he decides to leave the hacienda, a word from the proprietor will ensure his forced return by the police.1968, Claudio Véliz, Latin America and the Caribbean: a handbook. From the entry fareworthy
• Brunswick, always thinking ahead, kept improving the tone of bowling alleys, extending credit to potential bowling-alley proprietors, hiring architects and decorators to make sure the places wouldn't look riff-raffy.1962, Elwyn Brooks White (contributor), “The Talk Of The Town”, in The New Yorker, volume 38, page 29. From the entry riff-raffy
• As late as the eve of the World War, two-thirds of the farm land belonged to only a quarter of a million proprietors: princes and barons and well-to-do townsmen.1939, Carl T. Schmidt, chapter I, in The Corporate State in Action, New York: Oxford University Press, page 6. From the entry world war
• In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town.1932, A.M. Sakolski, The great American land bubble, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry land agent
• The appellant was the antiquous proprietor, and claimed a portion of the lands, sought to be resumed and assessed, as forming part of his permanently assessed Zemindary.1930, The Privy Council Digest, 1836-1930, page 305, column 2. From the entry antiquous
• The Fifth Amendment will simply prevent West Carolina from using those records or any information derived from them to prosecute the sole proprietors who are required to keep the records.2015, William F. Funk, Richard H. Seamon, Examples & Explanations for Administrative Law, →ISBN. From the entry West Carolina

Meaning of proprietor

1. noun An owner.
2. noun A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
3. noun One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.

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Questions about proprietor in a sentence

How do you use proprietor in a sentence?

Proprietor is used as a noun. For example: “To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.”

What is a short sentence with proprietor?

“Hills, proprietor of the Thames Iron Works.”

What does proprietor mean?

Proprietor means an owner.