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proprietor

noun as in person who owns something

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In any case, increasing traffic is the understandable goal of the shop’s proprietor, Ning, who readers follow through a typical, typically long workday.

Step inside her living room, and the vast collection of antiques feels like entering the former Encino Antique Center, where she was once the proprietor during the 1990s.

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Its proprietors wear bedazzled cowboy hats, which cast a shadow on their all-white uniforms.

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Jimmy John Liautaud, the billionaire proprietor of the sandwich chain Jimmy John’s and a serial yacht owner, is also a serial workaholic.

Siegel relayed a story about an old-timer saying the original owner — a proprietor named Margie — wouldn’t seat him until he donned a coat and tie.

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