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Meanings of proprietor in English

Russian
собственник
Portuguese
proprietário
Catalan
amo
Spanish
amo

One who owns something.

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        собственник
        Usage of proprietor in English
        1
        Lost favor of the proprietor of the garden, and failed in business.
        Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
        2
        The principal men of the establishment were the proprietor and the foreman.
        Thirty Years a Slave / From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution ...
        3
        In winter the proprietor gives balls in these apartments, charging 20 kr.
        Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
        4
        Finally, after a good deal of fumbling about she approached the proprietor.
        The new yorker
        5
        The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness.
        The Rose in the Ring
        6
        Malema is the sole proprietor of something called the Ratanang Family Trust.
        The South African
        7
        With the permission of the proprietor I went upstairs to the workroom.
        The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
        8
        He laid the roll on the table and sent for the proprietor.
        The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
        9
        The proprietor and the lady clerk described her at the same time.
        The Shrieking Pit
        10
        The proprietor squinted, uncomprehending, so he repeated the question in High Valyrian.
        A Dance with Dragons
        11
        The poor fellow got little encouragement from the face of the proprietor.
        The Flaw in the Sapphire
        12
        The proprietor also reserves the shootings, and the salmon and trout fishings.
        Second Shetland Truck System Report
        13
        She stepped down, and disappeared in the custody of her new proprietor.
        American Scenes, and Christian Slavery / A Recent Tour of Four T...
        14
        But I inwardly thanked the proprietor for the suggestion it afforded me.
        Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.
        15
        The place was in confusion and the proprietor at his wits' end.
        The Triflers
        16
        But again the knock, followed by the discreet cough of the proprietor.
        'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
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        United Kingdom
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        United States of America
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        Ireland
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