the owner of a business, a hotel, etc. newspaper proprietors Inquiries must be made to the proprietor.
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NAmE//prəˈpraɪət̮ərˌʃɪp//
noun [uncountable] see proprietressSee proprietor in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: proprietor