as in ownership
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Recent Examples of proprietorship
The New York Times described its methodology for producing the list, which started with selecting the criteria against which stores would be judged, including inventory, curation, proprietorship, customer service, ambience, location and payoff.
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Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025
True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, but since Craig's departure and the recent shake-up in proprietorship, no new Bond or Bond director has yet been announced.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 July 2024
Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
The awards — which have been given out to local proprietorships for over three decades — this year were sponsored by HarborOne Bank.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
Elon antagonists railed against his proprietorship.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
The American antimonopoly vision also played a foundational role in the decades-long fight to break the slave power, which many Americans considered a monopolistic threat to the system of small proprietorship that the U.S. government had cultivated.
—Barry C. Lynn, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
However, a proprietorship can only have one owner.
—Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proprietorship
ownership
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Currently, however, major investment companies own only a small portion of homes across the state, raising questions about how much of an impact limiting their ownership would have on home affordability.—
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Windward maritime intelligence analyst Michelle Wiese Bockmann claimed the Marinera’s ownership had just been transferred to Burevestmarin LLC, a Russian company.—
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“Proprietorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietorship. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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