sole proprietor

Examples of proprietor

proprietor
For workers as "cell proprietors" were to be afforded crucial domains of discretion, albeit ones traversed by tensions and potential conflicts.
Thus, the landed proprietors exercised a good amount of autonomy and authority in the economic sphere.
In specified cases the possibility for widows to function as 'interim proprietors ' and transfer properties to their new husbands was reduced.
Residents also came into contact with non-resident relatives and friends of the proprietor; including adult children and their children, siblings, and occasionally parents.
The proprietor was a 'merchant iron-smelter', which leaves one to wonder if the wood was not to be converted into charcoal.
This was backed by a close personal association with prominent newspaper proprietors.
Farmers and landed proprietors were the productive classes.
They guide care-home managers, proprietors and companies in their work.
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.
Nevertheless, the development and enlargement of an integrated hydraulic network in the thirteenth century inclined proprietors to take precautions against usurpers.
In the structured interviews, five of the six proprietors who identified a loss of motivation had not owned a care-home before.
The proprietors were found to derive great personal satisfaction from running the care home.
Also, with organic production, payrolls and proprietor incomes were higher.
It was notable that landowners were reluctant to recognise that they might have peer group interests in common with proprietors outside their immediate territory.
While some proprietors had closely investigated the likely impact of the proposed standards, in some cases there was clearly misunderstanding.
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