PROPRIETOR
Dictionary entry overview: What does proprietor mean?
• PROPRIETOR (noun)
The noun PROPRIETOR has 1 sense:
1. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
Familiarity information: PROPRIETOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROPRIETOR (noun)
Meaning:
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
owner; proprietor
Context example:
he is the owner of a chain of restaurants
Hypernyms ("proprietor" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proprietor"):
bookseller (the proprietor of a bookstore)
saloon keeper (the proprietor of a saloon)
restauranter; restaurateur (the proprietor of a restaurant)
renter (an owner who receives payment for the use of their property by another)
newspaper publisher; publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)
proprietress (a woman proprietor)
patron (the proprietor of an inn)
letter (owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire)
lease giver; lessor (someone who grants a lease)
timberman (an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering)
