A person who owns a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process.
housing was frequently built by the mill owner and rented to the workers
Example sentencesExamples
- She lives with her husband Avery, a well-off mill owner.
- Margaret comes to know and respect the ideas and the family life of both mill-hands and mill-owners.
- The mill owner claims the plant was running at a loss.
- The onset of a boom meant that millowners were more eager to make profits while they could, rather than engage in a long strike.
- The museum is the former home of 19th Century mill owner Colonel Edward Akroyd.
- The government adopted stringent regulations for any sale of flour by private mill owners.
- The son of a mill-owner, James Stuart received his school education at Madras College, St Andrews.
- She later worked in the household of a Bradford mill owner.
- The all-powerful mill owners were forced to grudgingly accept that their workers were entitled to an annual holiday.
- The mill owners now had access to water from the Canal Corporation's storage reservoirs.
- Pauper children could be 'apprenticed' to millowners in another town.