(n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
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Proprietor
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(2) Desmond, the straight-talking media proprietor whose empire including the Daily Star, Daily Express and OK!
(3) Shortly after her appearance she was appointed the main producer of Today on Radio 4, running coverage of major stories including the trial of former Daily Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black in Chicago.
(4) But that is hardly surprising given that the editor in chief of the Daily Mail this month condemned the fact that the multimillionaire proprietor "who'd made his money from porn" was deemed "a fit and proper person to own a newspaper" in a speech at the Leveson inquiry.
(5) Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors 10.
(6) Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors £32,470 7.795 10.
(7) Adel Abbas is the proprietor of the Top Coast coffee shop and restaurant in the Karrada district.
(8) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(9) The ill-fated free paper war cost both proprietors millions, and with its circulation spiralling downwards ultimately led Lebedev to take the Standard free as well .
(10) The government’s hold over main-stream media proprietors has meant that disillusioned liberal commentators who may have supported Erdogan’s reform efforts in the past have found themselves out of a job.
(11) Journalists who work here are not part of the press pack who must always keep one eye looking over their shoulder at their proprietor’s political whims – on business, on taxation or the European Union.
(12) For the sake of clarity it is worth pointing out that "the rich" Lord Lester is referring to are the rich who complain of being defamed, not the rich newspaper proprietors.
(13) "The transaction can only affect a cross-media audience and there is no reduction in the number of independent newspaper proprietors or TV broadcasters in the UK as a result of the transaction.
(14) It is standard for newspaper proprietors, however, to offer a month or four weeks' salary for every year worked, although many place limits on any lump sum received.
(15) Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found.
(16) MacKenzie denied Diamond's claim that News International proprietor Rupert Murdoch had instructed his editors to target her after she confronted him at a social event.
(17) He remains available for the occasional newspaper interview with a friendly proprietor and, at conference time, finds time for a 20-minute breakfast inquisition.
(18) He said the hacking affairs and the Leveson and committee inquiries had proven that politicians, the media and media proprietors had become far too close.
(19) Dominic Mohan told the inquiry that the proprietor of what is arguably Britain's most influential paper at election time supported the decision but was not solely responsible for it.
(20) Former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev yesterday finally signed the deal to become proprietor of the London Evening Standard .