Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or right of a proprietor; the condition of being a proprietor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being proprietor; ownership.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being a
proprietor ;ownership
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
Etymologies
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Examples
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You don't need to file paperwork to establish a sole proprietorship, which is a business that's owned by one person or a husband-and-wife team.
Setting Up a Business Structure Sarah E. Needleman 2010
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As for the sign's affirmation of Mr. Bangs proprietorship, that is considered the cream of the joke.
Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Having viewed Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory documentary episode dealing with the Sept. 11 attacks, I would like to call your attention to a detail that the research team may have overlooked, namely the proprietorship of Hangar 17, where the only known 9/11 evidence still in existence is locked away from public scrutiny.
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Having viewed Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory documentary episode dealing with the Sept. 11 attacks, I would like to call your attention to a detail that the research team may have overlooked, namely the proprietorship of Hangar 17, where the only known 9/11 evidence still in existence is locked away from public scrutiny.
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And no market has a more developed sense of entitled proprietorship over their purchases than video-game nerds.
Thestar.com - Home Page Darren Zenko 2010
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Authority became him, which is to say, as Penn puts it, He was the producer, so he had a kind of proprietorship over it, where I think he felt that he had to set a good example, too.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Thus when she muses that "To be mistress of Pemberley might be something," Elizabeth evokes a kind of proprietorship at once economic and sexual, a proprietorship contingent upon her own reproductive faculties.
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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He had unpacked the portmanteau long ago; and his elder children now played regularly about the yard, and everybody knew the baby, and claimed a kind of proprietorship in her.
Little Dorrit 2007
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He will sit on the ground floor, with his own kind, feeling as it were a kind of proprietorship in the playhouse.
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They applauded him, and it was plain that they regretted him, the tried friend, the man there was never any doubt about, whose convictions they had repeated, and whose speeches in Parliament they had read with a kind of proprietorship for so long.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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