0 a person who owns a particular type of business, especially a hotel, a shop, or a company that makes newspapers: --
2 the owner of a business, especially a hotel, a store, or a company that publishes newspapers: --
4 the owner of a copyright (= the legal rights to a book, play, piece of music, etc.) or a patent (= the legal rights to a product): --
While some proprietors had closely investigated the likely impact of the proposed standards, in some cases there was clearly misunderstanding.
It was notable that landowners were reluctant to recognise that they might have peer group interests in common with proprietors outside their immediate territory.
Also, with organic production, payrolls and proprietor incomes were higher.
The proprietors were found to derive great personal satisfaction from running the care home.
In the structured interviews, five of the six proprietors who identified a loss of motivation had not owned a care-home before.
Nevertheless, the development and enlargement of an integrated hydraulic network in the thirteenth century inclined proprietors to take precautions against usurpers.
They visited the mining areas, under the guidance of one of the main proprietors and made a gesture, duly photographed, towards panning for gold themselves.
They guide care-home managers, proprietors and companies in their work.