Usually means: Owners of exclusive rights, properties.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word proprietaries:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietaries: Merriam-Webster
  2. proprietaries: Collins English Dictionary
  3. proprietaries: Vocabulary.com
  4. Proprietaries, proprietaries: Wordnik
  5. proprietaries: Wiktionary
  6. Proprietaries, proprietaries: Dictionary.com
  7. Proprietaries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Proprietaries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. proprietaries: FreeDictionary.org
  10. proprietaries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietaries: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. proprietaries: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proprietaries: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietaries: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. proprietaries: Medical dictionary

(Note: See proprietary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (proprietary)

adjective:  Of or relating to property or ownership.
adjective:  Owning something; having ownership.
adjective:  Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
adjective:  Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
adjective:  Privately owned.
adjective:  (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
noun:  A proprietor or owner.
noun:  A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
noun:  The rights of a proprietor.
noun:  A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
noun:  (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
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