Proprietary /(?)/
Pro·pri·e·ta·ry
Proprietary
n.
pl. Proprietaries
- 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. (Eccl.)
Proprietary
a.
- Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Phrases & Compounds
- Proprietary articles
- manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.