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| proprietary | |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to property or ownership. |  |
| proprietary rights | |
| 2. adj. Owning something; having ownership. | |
| the proprietary class | |
| 3. adj. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret. | |
| The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products. | |
| 4. adj. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization. | |
| a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure | |
| 5. adj. Privately owned. | |
| a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel | |
| 6. adj. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial. | |
| 7. n. A proprietor or owner. | |
| 8. n. A body of proprietors, taken collectively. | |
| 9. n. The rights of a proprietor. | |
| 10. n. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession. | |
