Proprietor
[prə'praɪətə] or [prə'praɪətɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Possessor, owner, proprietary.
Edited by Jason
Definition
n. one who has anything as his property: an owner:—fem. Proprī′etress Proprī′etrix.—adjs. Proprī′etary Proprietō′rial belonging to a proprietor.—n. Proprī′etary a proprietor owner: a body of proprietors: the rights of a proprietor.—n. Proprī′etorship state or right of a proprietor: ownership.—Proprietary right the right of a proprietor: the common-law right of a playwright to control production or representation of his drama so long as unpublished: the right when protected by copyright after publication.
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It appeared, indeed, from the countenance of this proprietor, that he was of a frank, but hasty and choleric temper. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr. Kenge also came to speak to us and did the honours of the place in much the same way, with the bland modesty of a proprietor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But what's a man to be, with such a man as this for his Proprietor? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He becomes proprietor of this portion of the mine, and can work it without paving any acknowledgment to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some works are abandoned altogether; others can afford no rent, and can be wrought only by the proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The laws relating to land, therefore, were all calculated for what they supposed the interest of the proprietor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The proprietor visited Washington while I was President to get his pay for this property, claiming that it was private. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the present state of Europe, the proprietor of a single acre of land is as perfectly secure in his possession as the proprietor of 100,000. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He went home, and shortly his mother appeared at the laboratory with a horsewhip, which she proposed to use on the proprietor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proprietor proved to be a civil and respectable man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The proprietor was behind the bar. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The youthful proprietor sometimes cleared as much as twenty to thirty dollars a month from this unique journalistic enterprise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But it so happens, that many of the principal proprietors of the sugar plantations reside in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A third cheap issue, at eighteenpence a novel, is now being published by the present proprietors, Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the proprietors and cultivators. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To gratify the most childish vanity was the sole motive of the great proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The proprietors of land were anciently the legislators of every part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Objection, indeed, was made by the proprietors of the canal on account of the agitation of the water, which it was feared would injure the banks. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- If little improvement was to be expected from such great proprietors, still less was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But surely the big proprietors and the rich will make a revolution against such taxes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This court, indeed, is frequently subject, in many respects, to the control of a general court of proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Over and above all this, the moderate capital of this company is said to be divided among a very small number of proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The first is the class of the proprietors of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All of them were engrossed, and the greater part by a few great proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Deirdre