proprietorship
pruh prahy uh ter ship
- n an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
- Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he .
- Wisconsin's common folk, with an air of affectionate proprietorship, called him "the old man.
- It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship.