The word has historically been used along the borderland as a derogatory term to mean lower class Mexican migrants, and in the rest of Latin America to mean an acculturating Indian or peasant. Despite, or because of, its long history of denigrating semantics, the term Cholo was turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride in the context of the ethnic power movements of the 1960s.
Principals have different roles depending on the nature of an individual business, but the universal responsibility of a commercial business principal is significant influence. Some principals are also the founder, owner and CEO. Others own a large portion of company equity and sign off on major decisions.
1 Relating to an owner or ownership: the company has a proprietary right to the property. More example sentences. 1  So far as one knows, there is no ownership or proprietary rights over flowing waters..1 Behaving as if one owned something or someone: he looked about him with a proprietary air. More example sentences. â 1 They don't have anything like bouncy castles here,â says Louise, striding with a proprietary air through the long grass of what one day soon will be their own mini theme park.