Proprietary
[prə'praɪət(ə)rɪ] or [prə'praɪətɛri]
Definition
(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' .
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
(n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
(a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Proprietor.
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Examples
- Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He brought a commission to supersede Mr. Hamilton, who, tired with the disputes his proprietary instructions subjected him to, had resigned. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The proprietary government was still continued. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The disputes between the proprietaries and the people of the province continued in full force, although a war was raging on the frontiers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The disputes between the proprietaries and the Assembly, which for a time had subsided, were again revived. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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