as in proprietor
one who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership the owner of the building will have to decide whether or not to sell

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Recent Examples of owner Landmark made headlines last year amid a flurry of court filings when it was sued by lender Fortress after the chain’s owner Charles Cohen defaulted on a $534 million loan. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025 At the time, De Luca was rehearsing to an empty house at CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners, beside his longtime friend and Warner Bros. Pictures co-head Pamela Abdy. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 In the comedy film, which was adapted the 1978 French film La Cage aux Folles by director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May, the actor plays Albert Goldman, the flamboyant partner to Armand Goldman (Williams), a drag club owner living in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami. Stacy Lambe, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025 British business owners work longer hours and take fewer holidays than their counterparts elsewhere in Europe, according to a survey on workplace habits carried out by financial technology company SumUp. Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for owner

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“Owner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/owner. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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