the.com/proprietor
Owner, but dressed up to sound like it answers to no one.
means The person who legally owns a business or property, and therefore gets the final say.
from From Latin proprius, meaning 'one's own' — the same root that gives us 'proper' and 'property.' It passed through French propriétaire before settling into English in the 1500s as 'proprietor,' always carrying that core sense of exclusive possession: this thing is mine, not shared, not borrowed.
- legal weight
- holds title, not just the keys
- sole trader
- often means one person, all the liability
- etymology
- from proprius, latin for one's own
- shop door energy
- pairs best with the word establishment