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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun proprietor has 1 sense

• proprietor(n = noun.person) owner - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants"
has particulars: bookseller, lease giver, lessor, letter, patron, proprietress, newspaper publisher, publisher, renter, restauranter, restaurateur, saloon keeper, timberman
is a kind of businessman, man of affairs
Derived forms adjective proprietary₁, noun proprietorship₁

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

proprietor

beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, holder, householder, innkeeper, laird, landholder, landlady, landlord, landowner, licensee, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, partner, possessor, property owner, proprietary, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, rentier, squire, titleholder

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proprietor

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.

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