proprietary
adjective
belonging to a proprietor.
proprietaries
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pluralof proprietary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
With this war against France began the struggle of the Assemblies and the proprietaries on the question of taxing the estates of the latter.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
The disputes between the proprietaries and the Assembly, which for a time had subsided, were again revived.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Franklin
The Assembly understood it to mean that the land of the proprietaries should not be taxed higher than that of any of the inhabitants, of the same quality.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
