proprietor
/prəˈprʌɪətə
/noun
The owner of a business, or a holder of property: Chinese restaurant proprietors by 1640 he was himself the proprietor of a three-hundred-acre tract...
- Its proprietors have managed to fashion a sow's ear out of a silk purse.
- Each year, thousands of sole proprietors double the size of their businesses by hiring their first employee.
- If her bid stands, she could become the sole proprietor of the hotel.
Synonyms
owner, possessor, holder, keeper, freeholder, landowner, squire, landlord/landlady, master/mistress;
innkeeper, hotelkeeper, hotelier, licensee, patron, shopkeeper;
title-holder, deed-holder
rare proprietrix
Derivatives
proprietorship
/ noun ...- Although California imposes strict limitations on when a trust may own stock or a partnership interest in an accountancy firm, these limitations do not apply to ownership of a sole proprietorship.
- Choose the right business entity: Many new entrepreneurs choose sole proprietorship because it's easy to set up, yet it offers little protection from lawsuits.
- Many small businesses start their businesses as sole proprietorships or partnerships.
Rhymes
- Powellised
- Powellism
- Powellist
- powellite
- Powellized
- Powell, John Wesley
- Powell, Lake
- Powell, Lewis Franklin
- Powell, Michael
- power
- powerable
- power alley
- power amp
- power amplifier
- power assist
- power assistance
- power-assisted
- power ballad
- powerband
- power bandwidth
- power bar
- power base
- powerbeads
- power behind the throne
- power bloc