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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • of a person Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
  • Manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a patent or trade secret.
  • Of or relating to property or ownership, as ''proprietary rights''.
  • Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as ''the proprietary class''.
  • Privately owned, as ''a proprietary lake''.

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