PROPRIETORSHIP in a Sentence
Learn PROPRIETORSHIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for PROPRIETORSHIP, such as:Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while.
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Meanings and Examples of PROPRIETORSHIP
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proprietorship
n. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
Classic Sentence:
1 Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while.
2 The remark was uttered with a little air of proprietorship not lost on its object, who concealed a faint blush of annoyance by stooping to pick up the book he had dropped at Lily's approach.
Example Sentence:
1 From a legal viewpoint, there are three common types of businesses: sole proprietorship, partnership and corporation.