proprietor

“It’s like a West End show coming to an end,” said Jeremy King, veteran restaurateur and the proprietor at Simpson’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

However, there are other risks associated with being a sole proprietor that should be considered.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

"We are suffering a lot," said Kishor Dulera, a tile unit proprietor who closed this factory and two others in early March, sending hundreds of workers home.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

The same could be said of Lesli Margherita’s Mrs. Lovett, the proprietor of a filthy and failing Fleet Street pie shop, but it’s a shakier case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

“What did any Bolton ever know o’ honor?” said the Eel’s proprietor as he filled their cups with more brown wine.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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