Found 2 items, similar to proprietary.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: proprietary proprietary adj : 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" [ant: nonproprietary] proprietary n : an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits [syn: proprietorship]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Proprietary Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. [1913 Webster] Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. --U. S. Statutes. [1913 Webster] Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Proprietaries. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.] 1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. A body proprietors, taken collectively. [1913 Webster] 3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession. [1913 Webster]