1. 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"

1. An unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
   - proprietorship

Derived forms: proprietaries

See also: branded, copyrighted, patented, proprietor, trademarked

Type of: ownership

Antonym: nonproprietary

Encyclopedia: Proprietary

• deal out
• dealer
• dealership
• dealfish
• dealignment
• dealing
• dealings
• deallocate
• dealt out
• deaminate
• deamination
• deaminisation
• deaminise
• deaminization
• deaminize
• dean
• Dean Acheson
• Dean Gooderham Acheson
• Dean Martin
• Dean Swift
• deanery
• deanship
• dear
• dear me
• dearest