proprietary

proprietary is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3. noun. A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
4. adjective. Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
5. noun. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

   Synonyms: proprietorship

6. adjective. 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"

Synonyms

proprietorship

Common word forms

proprietaries, proprietarily

Words from these letters

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