proprietor

Example Sentences

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To keep costs low, the couple looks for contractors who are sole proprietors and don’t have to cover the overhead of a big company.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many people picture a successful entrepreneur as a loner—a sole proprietor who comes up with an idea and works alone to make it a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal

This should lead to, among other thing, higher after-tax earnings for sole proprietors and small firms; stronger loan demand for community banks; and better exit economics for early stage investors, SocGen reckons.

From MarketWatch

The spokesperson said it was now the council's intention to remove the waste and recover the cost of doing so from the proprietor.

From BBC

In any case, increasing traffic is the understandable goal of the shop’s proprietor, Ning, who readers follow through a typical, typically long workday.

From The Wall Street Journal