owner
a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.
Origin of owner
1Other words from owner
- non·own·er, noun
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How to use owner in a sentence
Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.
When the police showed up, it was the property owners who were arrested.
After World War I, unions began their losing and lethal battle with textile owners across the South.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really. | Ana Marie Cox | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs you put it, “letting some business owners exercise their conscience would cause no harm to gays.”
Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around | Jay Michaelson | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe NFL cares about only one thing: protecting the 32 franchise owners.
In 1779 they frequently stopped waggons travelling on that day, and fined the owners for so doing.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellThus the rapacity of Capital defeats itself, and actually impoverishes its owners when it deprives Labor of a fair reward.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyTo such persons does he open the doors to pay them, while they are shut on the wretched owners without recourse.
He captured two, whom he shot, and burned two or three houses whose owners had been harboring the gang.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnIn summer time its owners and their friends frequently tea within its venerable trunk.
British Dictionary definitions for owner
/ (ˈəʊnə) /
a person who owns; legal possessor
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