Patron vs Proprietor - What's the difference?
patron | proprietor |
One who protects or supports; a defender.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
An advocate or pleader.
* Macaulay
(UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(nautical) A padrone.
An owner.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
(history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
As nouns the difference between patron and proprietor
is that patron is one who protects or supports; a defender while proprietor is an owner.As a verb patron
is to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.patron
English
Noun
(en noun)- patron of my life and liberty
- the patron of true holiness
- This car park is for patrons only.
- Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.
Derived terms
* patronage * patroness * patronize, patronise *patron saintSee also
* sponsorAnagrams
* ----proprietor
English
(wikipedia proprietor)Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.}}