Proprietor

//pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ//

"Proprietor" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The proprietor of the store worked at the head of his employees.

I am the proprietor of an apartment in Bejaia, Algeria.

It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.

Yanni is the proprietor of this Algerian restaurant.

The hamlet was composed of a few very poor dwellings grouped around a large low horse-shoe shaped building, which was the manorial mansion of the absent proprietor.

If I go bankrupt as a sole proprietor I'll lose my house.

Tom is the proprietor of a bar on Park Street.

The proprietor is coming tomorrow.

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.

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.

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From 10 September 1621 till 12 June 1632, Sir William Alexander, styled Earl of Stirling and Viscount of Canada, was proprietor of the Scottish colony Nova Scotia.

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