Usually means: Owned exclusively by one entity.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word proprietary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proprietary: Merriam-Webster
  3. proprietary, proprietary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proprietary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proprietary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proprietary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proprietary, proprietary: Wordnik
  8. proprietary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proprietary: Wiktionary
  10. proprietary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proprietary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proprietary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. proprietary: Dictionary.com
  14. proprietary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. proprietary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Proprietary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Proprietary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. proprietary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. proprietary: Rhymezone
  20. proprietary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. proprietary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. proprietary: FreeDictionary.org
  23. proprietary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. proprietary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. proprietary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. proprietary: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. PROPRIETARY: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. proprietary: Legal dictionary
  11. proprietary: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietary: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. proprietary: Netlingo
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. proprietary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. proprietary: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proprietary: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proprietary: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See proprietaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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