0 the situation of owning something: --
proprietorship over sth Zimbabwe granted proprietorship over wildlife to landowners.
1 a particular legal form for a small company in some countries: --
Were these men threatened with loss of their holdings by reason of the fact that the proprietorship was sold?
Presumably, they have no right of proprietorship in or any power of developing the area thus preempted.
Contests over proprietorship and rivalries over naming are often to the fore in the field of prehistory where fresh 'discoveries' are so much part of the pride of first possession.
A space was opened up within which an alignment could be established between the ideas of product quality, economic citizenship, and cell proprietorship.
The first type of land unit refers to proprietorship or ownership rights and to the jural units controlling these rights.
Motivated by profits, survival, principle, or pride of personal proprietorship, employers instinctively opposed the surrender of their managerial independence.
Also, 60 per cent of the firms were sole proprietorships and 25 per cent were partnerships ranging from two to eleven persons.
The small business literature also neglects this issue due to an implicit monolithic assumption about small businesses as sole proprietorships.
