Proprietorship
[prə'praɪətɚ,ʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being proprietor; ownership.
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Examples
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As the community grew and a sort of law came to restrain internecine fighting, men developed rough and ready methods of settling proprietorship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dog and his bone, the tigress and her lair, the roaring stag and his herd, these are proprietorship blazing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It merely referred,' Mr Podsnap explained, with a sense of meritorious proprietorship, 'to Our Constitution, Sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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