proprietaries
- plural of proprietary.
Example Sentences
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With the spread of the influenza epidemic pernicious drug vendors cried new merits for their proprietaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Evergreen bought Intermountain Aviation, one of Doole's CIA "proprietaries," in 1975, the company insists that it has had nothing further to do with the agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
We bought some old cannon from Boston, but, these not being sufficient, we wrote to England for more, soliciting at the same time our proprietaries for some assistance, though without much expectation of obtaining it.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin
The bill expressed that all estates, real and personal, were to be taxed, those of the proprietaries not excepted.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin
When this act, however, came over, the proprietaries, counseled by Paris, determined to oppose its receiving the royal assent.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin
