proprietor

Noun

Meaning

One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.

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It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. Adam Smith

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. Quentin Crisp

For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. Elfriede Jelinek

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year. Thomas Malthus

AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor. Yves Klein

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