proprietor

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin proprietor (see below), from proprietas, 'property', from proprius '(one's) own'

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ/

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Noun

proprietor (plural proprietors)

1. An owner
2. A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor
3. One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner
4. (history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration

   From 10 September 1621 till 12 June 1632, Sir William Alexander, styled Earl of Stirling and Viscount of Canada, was proprietor of the Scottish colony Nova Scotia

Derived terms

• Lord proprietor
• proprietorship
• sole proprietor

Hypernyms

• entrepreneur

Coordinate terms

• partner

Translations

owner

Armenian: տեր (hy) (ter) Czech: majitel (cs) m., vlastník (cs) m. Dutch: eigenaar (nl) m., bezitter (nl) m. Finnish: omistaja (fi) French: propriétaire (fr) m. and f. Greek: ιδιοκτήτης (el) (idioktítis) m. Hungarian: tulajdonos (hu)

Italian: proprietario (it) m. Japanese: 所有者 (ja) (shoyūsha), 経営者 (ja) (keieisha) Kurdish: Sorani: خاوه‌ن (ku) (xawen) Manx: shellooder (gv) m. Romanian: proprietar (ro) m.

sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called sole proprietor

Dutch: (enige) eigenaar m. Finnish: omistaja (fi)

Greek: ιδιοκτήτης (el) (idioktítis) m. Japanese: 所有者 (ja) (shoyūsha), 経営者 (ja) (keieisha)

one of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner

Dutch: mede-eigenaar m., partner m. Finnish: omistaja (fi), partneri (fi)

Japanese: (a owner) 所有者 (ja) (shoyūsha); (owners) 所有者団体 (ja) (shoyūsha-dantai)

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French: propriétaire m. German: Besitzer m., Inhaber m. Slovak: majiteľ (1), súkromník

See also

• appropriate
• corporation
• proper
• property

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Latin

Noun

proprietor, genitive proprietoris

1. An owner