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The definition of proprietary is something owned or a brand or item protected by intellectual property rights.

(adjective)

An example of something that would be described as proprietary is the ownership interest you have in your possessions.
An example of something that would be described as proprietary are the patented drawings for a new product.

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See proprietary in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. proprietaries

a proprietor or owner
a group of proprietors
proprietorship or ownership
☆ the grantee or owner of a proprietary colony in colonial America
a proprietary medicine

Origin: LL proprietarius < L proprietas: see property

adjective

belonging to a proprietor
holding property
of property or proprietorship
privately owned and operated: a proprietary nursing home
held under patent, trademark, or copyright by a private person or company: a proprietary medicine

See proprietary in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of, relating to, or suggestive of a proprietor or to proprietors as a group: had proprietary rights; behaved with a proprietary air in his friend's house.
Exclusively owned; private: a proprietary hospital.
Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent: a proprietary drug.

noun pl. pro·pri·e·tar·ies

A proprietor.
A group of proprietors.
Ownership; proprietorship.
A proprietary medicine.
One granted ownership of a proprietary colony.

Origin:

Origin: From Middle English proprietarie, owner of property

Origin: , from Old French proprietaire

Origin: and from Medieval Latin proprietārius

Origin: , both from Late Latin, of a property owner

Origin: , from Latin proprietās, ownership; see property

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pro·priˌe·tarˈi·ly adverb

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