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• n  (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

• Foxx, whose stage act liberally employed words and references that you still can't use on broadcast TV, was cleaned up, but not smoothed over, as junkyard proprietor, serial over .
• Last January Nowl's abrasive proprietor ordered his magazine to publish an eight-page speech he had written on the dangers of Communist infiltration.
• Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden.

• owner

News & Articles

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• Controversial Arts District Brewpub Approved
  DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - A city zoning administrator has approved a controversial proposal from Downtown bar proprietor Cedd Moses to develop a brewpub on Traction Avenue in the Arts District, despite a
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Downtown News
• Free Ticket Tuesday - Father’s Day giveaway
  Alisa Harris, proprietor of TheatreNOW, is offering up two tickets to their original dinner theater show “A Swing and a Miss”
  June 11, 2013 - The Wilmington Star-News
• Songwriter Freedy Johnston to play Hampton in August | Sound Check
  Owning your own bar and grill has its perks. Carlyle Bland, proprietor of Marker 20 in downtown Hampton, recently found himself listening to tunes by songwriter Freedy Johnston. In nearly the blink of an eye, he had him booked.        
  June 10, 2013 - Daily Press

Quotes

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• Allen Toussaint in Canada.com
  The red-light district was a bit before my time,Toussaint said. "But the older guys would tell us that there was usually just a piano in those places, because the proprietor would only have to pay the pianist. But around those houses of...
• Peter C Newman in Toronto Star
  Well, he doesn't own the company,Newman said. "He behaved as if he was in the 17th century where the proprietor rules and that's not true anymore." "He talked about shareholders as terrorists. They're not terrorists. They're putting...
• Joe Lieberman in ZDNet UK
  Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, complained to a federal commission that .XXX was necessary to force adult Webmasters to "abide by the same standard as the proprietor of an X-rated movie theater".