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# proprietor

«proprietor» in Mova's school dictionary: **The owner of a business, such as a shop, hotel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a proprietor, proprietors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) The owner of a business, such as a shop, hotel, restaurant or newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#m1)

2) An owner of property. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

On shop signs and in stories: «J. Smith, Proprietor». In everyday speech people say «owner». In maths business problems the proprietor buys and sells items, works out profit and pays staff. Phrases: «the proprietor of», «sole proprietor».

### examples

- The proprietor of the café gave us free cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x1)
- Ask the proprietor if we can leave our bikes here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x2)
- The hotel proprietor greeted the guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x3)
- The sign said «Mrs Patel, Proprietor». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x4)
- The proprietor buys apples at 20p and sells them at 35p. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x5)
- The shop's proprietor closed early on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x6)
- He had all his company with him in a large box, for he was the proprietor of a puppet-show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/#x7)

### note

Countable: proprietors. Formal; everyday word: owner. Related: property, proprietary. Spelling: pro-PRI-e-tor.

### In the corpora

- [Toad, a landed proprietor» (a landowner).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «proprietor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proprietor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.