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' .

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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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