Hyphenation of “proprietorship”
The standard US-English hyphenation shown for proprietorship is pro-pri-etor-ship, with 3 possible break points in this result.
US English hyphenation
pro-pri-etor-ship
4 segments3 break points
British English pattern result
pro-pri-et-or-ship
The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
What does “proprietorship” mean?
proprietorship: The state or right of owning a business or holding property.
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noun
The state or right of owning a business or holding property.
How “proprietorship” is split
pro·pri·etor·ship
For US English, the hyphenation result is pro-pri-etor-ship. This gives 3 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns pro-pri-et-or-ship.
Questions about “proprietorship”
How do you hyphenate “proprietorship”?
In the US-English result used here, proprietorship is hyphenated as pro-pri-etor-ship.
Where can “proprietorship” break at the end of a line?
The returned US pattern contains 3 possible break points.
What does “proprietorship” mean?
The state or right of owning a business or holding property.