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proprietor
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[ noun ] (work,business) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
Synonyms Examples "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Sarah_Gross , a dress_shop proprietor , paid $ 1020 to a masseur , and Mr._A. , a laborer , paid $ 4200 to a chiropractor for treatment with two fake health machines - the `` radioclast '' and the `` diagnometer '' . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)About 1888 J._E._McNaughton of Barnumville and E._G._Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green_Mountain_Telegraph_Company '' , connecting all offices on the Western_Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru , Londonderry , South_Londonderry , Lowell_Lake , Windham , North_Windham , Grafton , Cambridgeport , Saxton_'s_River , and Bellows_Falls . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)When McFeeley was halfway to the door , the proprietor emerged - a mountainous , dark man , his head thick_with resiny black hair , his eyes like two of the black_olives he imported in boatloads . |
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