proprietors
- plural of proprietor.
Example Sentences
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My grandmother, who was a friend of the proprietors of the fish market, got me the job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Bucket shop patrons were positioned heavily for Amalgamated to rise, so the proprietors shorted the stock “to establish as low a quotation as possible,” the Journal wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
This should lead to, among other thing, higher after-tax earnings for sole proprietors and small firms; stronger loan demand for community banks; and better exit economics for early stage investors, SocGen reckons.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
But sole proprietors have to pay both parts of the self-employment tax on all income, whereas S corps can get a break here.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
