Synonyms:
proprietorship, proprietary
Meaning: an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
Usage examples
The woman in black drew haughtily away and clutched the Noah's ark with a gesture of proprietorship.
As Toby walked around the circus grounds, whereon was so much to attract his attention, he could not prevent himself from assuming an air of proprietorship.
With a queer little twinge of infringed proprietorship, the doctor saw Sir Richmond step up on the prostrate megalith and stand beside her, the better to appreciate her point of view.
It is true that this attribution is not absolutely characteristic of mental phenomena, for it happens that we put a part of our Ego into material objects, such as our bodies, and even into objects separate from our bodies, and whose sole relation to us is that of a legal proprietorship.