- 1(of goods) made and sold by a particular company and protected by a registered trademark a proprietary medicine proprietary brands a proprietary name
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- 2relating to an owner or to the fact of owning something The company has a proprietary right to the property.
- 3behaving as if you owned someone or something He looked about him with a proprietary air.
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