(n.) A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
(n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
(n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
(a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report on a comparative study of social work services in proprietary and nonprofit hospitals that used the results of the Membership Survey, 1985 of the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors and a sample of 50 proprietary hospital social work departments.
(2) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
(3) A proprietary insecticidal mulesing powder containing diazinon and an experimental liquid dressing based on eucalyptus oil, naphthalene, cresylic acid and chlorfenvinphos in a carrier of liquid hydrocarbons and petroleum oil were compared for their ability to promote wound healing and reduce the incidence of fly strike in freshly mulesed lambs.
(4) The proprietary treatments were etching, silanation, surface activation, etching plus silanation, and etching plus surface activation.
(5) The reasons for the expanded growth of proprietary chains over nonprofit systems of ambulatory care are also discussed.
(6) Flexible silicone posterior chamber intraocular lenses made of a proprietary formulation were implanted in rabbits following planned extracapsular lens extraction.
(7) Diminished reimbursement places a greater financial burden upon not-for-profit centers over those that are proprietary.
(8) The results indicate that present recommendations for infant feeding in Finland--including prolonged breast feeding, the use of proprietary milk formulas after weaning, and later introduction of solid foods--prevent overnutrition.
(9) This report compares fat, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, and copper absorption and retention data from 13 nutritional balance studies performed in 12 appropriate-for-gestational-age premature infants with birth weights less than or equal to 1,600 g fed a proprietary premature formula or their own mother's preterm human milk (PTHM) fortified with a powdered protein-mineral supplement.
(10) Emphasis has been placed on the stability problems which could arise upon dilution of proprietary preparations by the use of model systems.
(11) This study assessed changes in the structure and quality of care on 13 acute care psychiatric units before and after a single outside proprietary firm was hired to manage the units.
(12) The quali-quantitative characterization of such extracts, as active ingredients for the formulation of proprietary medicinal products, requires therefore, if compared with that of pure products, to set up a specific analytical development in relation to the complexity and the grade of refinement attained by the multicomponent mixture.
(13) I’ve got nothing against proprietary software: as the eponymous heroine says of chemistry in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.” But when, as in the VW case, software has the potential or the power to have an adverse effect on human life or wellbeing, then we have to hold it to a different standard.
(14) This article attempts to place in proper perspective the legal and ethical aspects of proprietary rights as they apply to federally funded media programs.
(15) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
(16) It is anticipated that research into the important public policy issues regarding relationships between costs and proprietary status and quality of care will be enhanced by developing teaching nursing homes.
(17) In Experiment 1, laying hens on a proprietary layer mash were compared with hens rested from lay by the feeding of whole grain barley.
(18) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
(19) The declining incidence of this disorder is felt to be due to the decrease in physicians' use of prescription bromides and the declining availability of proprietary bromide containing compounds.
(20) The infants were weaned at different ages either to a proprietary infant milk formula or to a home-prepared cow's milk formula.
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 .