proprietor

IPA: prʌprˈaɪʌtɝ

An owner.
A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
(history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.

Examples of "proprietor" in Sentences

The proprietor is an interesting guy named Gilberto Penzo.
Hazel, the proprietor, is in her sixties, and it's a toss-up as to whether she's more attached to her mother or her cats.
There are many comfortable-looking large houses, generally built according to the customs of the country whereof the proprietor is a native.
For National Poetry Month (April, to civilians), GottaBook's proprietor is promising new work by some of the finest kids 'poets in the land.
Though the long-term proprietor, Julie Griffiths, hates the term, this pub high in the Chiltern hills, lays claim to being the original gastropub.
A humble proletarian hotel proprietor is subsequently pole-axed by the super-structure of the capitalist means-of-production in a dramatic example of Asiatic despotism at work throughout the totality of the imperialist capitalist system.
The Happy Trails proprietor is a huge Frank Zappa fan, his windows are a testament to his love ♥ This place is also linked in history to our local Stairway Denied — Zeppelin tribute band — and the Alchemist, our local independent infozine.