proprietaries

Variant of proprietary

proprietary definition

pro·pri·etary (prə prī′ə ter′ē, prō-)

noun pl. proprietaries -·tar′·ies

  1. a proprietor or owner
  2. a group of proprietors
  3. proprietorship or ownership
  4. ☆ the grantee or owner of a proprietary colony in colonial America
  5. a proprietary medicine

Etymology: LL proprietarius < L proprietas: see property

adjective

  1. belonging to a proprietor
  2. holding property
  3. of property or proprietorship
  4. privately owned and operated a proprietary nursing home
  5. held under patent, trademark, or copyright by a private person or company a proprietary medicine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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