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proprietor
(pro¦pri|etor)
Pronunciation:
/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
Derivatives
proprietorship
noun
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