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Meaning of 'proprietary' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Proprietary [ a.]
- Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
2 . Proprietary [ n.]
- 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.
- A body proprietors, taken collectively.
- A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Meaning of 'proprietary' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . proprietary [ a]
Meaning (1):
- protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
Example in sentence:
  • `Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form

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