Proprietor - English meaning

noun

A person who owns the freehold to a piece of land or property.

Usage examples:

Freeholders are usually responsible for the repair and maintenance of the exterior of the building

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Someone who owns the freehold on a building or piece of land

Usage examples:

Buildings insurance on flats is usually paid for by the freeholder and then charged to leaseholders…

noun

A device or implement for holding something.

Usage examples:

I replaced the phone in its holder

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A device for putting objects in or for keeping them in place

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A cup/paper towel holder, property holders, competition benefits credit card holders.

noun

A person who officially owns something

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A credit card holder, property holders were pleased with the tax cut.

noun

A person who owns or manages a hotel.

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Bar owners, hoteliers, shopkeepers and taxi drivers intend to make hay while the sun shines.

noun

A person or company that manages or owns a hotel

Usage examples:

The hotelier said revenue per available room was down 52 per cent last month.

noun

A person who runs a hotel.

Usage examples:

Mr paine was a hotelkeeper on a relatively modest scale.

noun

A person who runs an inn.

Usage examples:

A man was sitting there speaking to the innkeeper, other patrons carried on at their tables.

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A person who owns or manages an inn (= a hotel)

noun

A person who manages or looks after something or someone.

Usage examples:

I'm your friend, not your keeper

noun

Someone responsible for guarding or taking care of a person, animal, or thing

Usage examples:

An animal keeper, each of the contest judges was assigned a keeper.

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A person who takes care of animals, buildings, etc. or is in charge of valuable objects or information

Usage examples:

He is the organization's official record keeper., an assistant keeper at the museum, i've tried man…

noun

A woman who rents out land, a building, or accommodation.

Usage examples:

It had been difficult to find a landlady willing to rent to us - a jobless teenager and his runaway…

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A woman who owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use

noun

A man (in legal use also a woman) who rents out land, a building, or accommodation.

Usage examples:

The goal is to educate tenants about the legal amount their landlord can up their rent.

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A person who owns a building or an area of land and is paid by other people for the use of it

Usage examples:

Heather's landlord actually lowered her rent when she said she might move out.

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A person or organization that owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use

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Landlords have legal obligations that cannot be avoided by leaving them out of the tenancy agreemen…

noun

A person who owns land, especially a large amount of land.

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In areas that are privately owned, the council encourages the landowners to keep their land free fr…

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Someone who owns land, often a lot of land

noun

Someone who owns land, usually a lot of land

Usage examples:

Many large landowners in the uk have decided to work with energy companies to harness the power of …

noun

The holder of a licence, especially to sell alcoholic drinks.

Usage examples:

The plaintiff, who was on the defendant's land as a licensee, was injured by the negligent shunting…

noun

A person or organization who has official permission to make, do, or own something

Usage examples:

No one but a manufacturer or its licensee can legally import a drug into the united states., by law…

noun

A man who has people working for him, especially servants or slaves.

Usage examples:

He acceded to his master's wishes

verb

Used as a title prefixed to the name of a boy not old enough to be called ‘mr’.

Usage examples:

Master james wishart

noun

A ship or boat with a specified number of masts.

Usage examples:

A three-master

noun

A woman in a position of authority or control.

Usage examples:

She is always mistress of the situation, coolly self-possessed

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A woman who has a sexual relationship over a long period of time with a man who is not her husband

noun

A person who owns something.

Usage examples:

The proud owner of a huge dalmatian

noun

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, or cause.

Usage examples:

A celebrated patron of the arts

noun

A person or group that gives money or support to a person, an activity, or an organization

Usage examples:

Auchincloss is a longtime patron of the arts.

noun

Someone who uses a particular shop, restaurant, hotel, etc., especially regularly

Usage examples:

This car park is for patrons only., arts patron/patron of the arts the company has been a longtime …

noun

A person who owns something or has a particular quality.

Usage examples:

His father was the possessor of a considerable fortune

noun

A person, company, etc. that owns something

Usage examples:

Possessor of sth even the biggest oil producer and possessor of the world's largest petroleum reser…

noun

A professional, especially in sport.

Usage examples:

A tennis pro

adjective

(of a person or an event) professional.

Usage examples:

A pro golfer

preposition

In favour of.

Usage examples:

They were pro the virtues of individualism

noun

A female proprietor.

Usage examples:

Having received directions from the proprietress, mrs. marshall, that morning they made their way t…

noun

A woman who is a proprietor

noun

The owner and manager of a shop.

Usage examples:

When we walk into a shop we get sneered at by the shopkeeper and we are not left to walk about the …

noun

Someone who owns or manages a store, especially a small one

Usage examples:

Supermarkets have priced small shopkeepers out of business.

noun

A man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area, especially the chief landowner in such an area.

Usage examples:

The squire of radbourne hall

verb

A subadult snapper fish ( chrysophrys auratus ).

noun

The person who has the right to own a property and has a document to prove this

Usage examples:

Proceeds from the sale of the land go directly to the title holder., the french team are the title …