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PROPRIETORSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proprietorship mean? 

PROPRIETORSHIP (noun)
  The noun PROPRIETORSHIP has 1 sense:

1. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profitsplay

  Familiarity information: PROPRIETORSHIP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROPRIETORSHIP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

proprietary; proprietorship

Hypernyms ("proprietorship" is a kind of...):

ownership (the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others)

Derivation:

proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)


 Context examples 


Any formal business entity for profit, which may be a corporation, a partnership, association or individual proprietorship.

(Company, NCI Thesaurus)

But the interruption, and the disorder she was thrown into by the struggle outside, put an end to all softer ideas for the present, and kept my aunt indignantly declaiming to Mr. Dick about her determination to appeal for redress to the laws of her country, and to bring actions for trespass against the whole donkey proprietorship of Dover, until tea-time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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