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Proprietary

Proprietary Meaning & Definition
Proprietary Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Proprietary?

[n] an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
[adj] protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights; "`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Proprietary: branded | copyright | copyrighted | patented | proprietorship | trademarked

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See Also | ownership

Proprietary In Webster's Dictionary

\Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See {Propriety}, and cf. {Proprietor}.] 1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right. --Fuller. 2. A body proprietors, taken collectively. 3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
\Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. {Proprietary articles}, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. --U. S. Statutes.

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