proprietaryadjective [ before noun ]
uk/prəˈpraɪə.tər.i/us/prəˈpraɪə.ter.i/relating to owning something, or relating to or like an owner:
I just assumed he owned the place - he had a proprietary air about him.
Proprietary goods are made and sent out by a particular company whose name is on the product:
proprietary medicines
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Having and owning - general words
- -owned
- attach to sb/sth
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bear
- bearer
- belong
- belong to sb
- call
- claim
- endow
- glint
- hold
- interest
- mistress
- not/never want for anything idiom
- owner
- ownership
- proprietress
- stake somewhere/sth out
- want
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