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| Main Entry: | proprietor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who owns something |
| Synonyms: | front office, meal ticket*, owner, possessor, freeholder, holder, land owner, proprietary, titleholder |
| Antonyms: | customer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge |
| Synonyms: | big cheese*, big wheel*, bigwig*, boss, captain, commander, dictator, director, general, governor, head, honcho*, leader, manager, monarch, overlord, overseer, president, principal, proprietor, ringleader, ruler, sovereign, superintendent, supervisor, big gun, chieftain, foreperson, head honcho, head person, key player, suzerain, top brass, top cat |
| Antonyms: | apprentice, employee, servant, subordinate, underling, worker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, business who hires |
| Synonyms: | big shot*, boss, businessperson, capitalist, chief, company, corporation, director, entrepreneur, establishment, executive, firm, front office, head, juice*, management, manager, manufacturer, meal ticket*, organization, outfit, overseer, owner, patron, president, proprietor, superintendent, supervisor, CEO, CO, head honcho, kingpin, slavedriver, workers big cheese |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | landlord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | owner of property leased |
| Synonyms: | innkeeper, lessor, proprietor, squire, freeholder, hotelier, hotelkeeper, property owner, saw |
| Antonyms: | boarder, renter, leaser |
| Main Entry: | manager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who runs organization |
| Synonyms: | administrator, boss, comptroller, conductor, director, executive, governor, head, officer, official, organizer, overseer, proprietor, superintendent, supervisor, controller, exec, handler, head person, producer, slavedriver, straw boss, zookeeper |
| Antonyms: | employee |
| Main Entry: | owner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has possession of |
| Synonyms: | governor, heir, keeper, partner, possessor, proprietor, purchaser, squire, heir-apparent, heiress, heritor, holder, landowner, legatee, sharer, something buyer, titleholder |
| Antonyms: | renter, leaser |
| Main Entry: | shopkeeper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merchant |
| Synonyms: | businessperson, dealer, entrepreneur, proprietor, salesperson, seller, storekeeper, vendor, retailer, store owner, wholesaler |
| Main Entry: | storekeeper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shopkeeper |
| Synonyms: | businessperson, dealer, entrepreneur, merchant, proprietor, salesperson, seller, vendor, grocer, retailer, store owner, wholesaler |
| Main Entry: | umpire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who settles dispute |
| Synonyms: | arbiter, arbitrator, inspector, judge, justice, mediator, moderator, negotiator, peacemaker, proprietor, referee, settler, adjudicator, assessor, compromiser, ref, ump |
| Notes: | referee originally referred to a person appointed by the British Parliament to examine patent applications (1621) and was formed from English refer and -ee. The sense of 'an arbitrator or person to whom a dispute is referred' was first recorded in 1690; by 1840 the word acquired the further sense of 'the judge of play in games and sports.' Baseball, boxing, and cricket have umpires; basketball, hockey, rugby, and football have referees - and American football has both. |
| Main Entry: | innkeeper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hotelier |
| Synonyms: | host, proprietor, hotelkeeper |
| Main Entry: | possessor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | owner |
| Synonyms: | beneficiary, buyer, heir, landlord, lessee, master, occupant, partner, proprietor, purchaser, retainer, trustee, heiress, holder, inheritor, laird, landlady, landowner, legatee, occupier, proprietress |
| Main Entry: | host |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who entertains, performs |
| Synonyms: | anchor, entertainer, innkeeper, keeper, manager, moderator, owner, proprietor, anchor person, emcee, person of the house, presenter |
| Antonyms: | guest, visitor |
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