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   proprietary

   /prəˈprʌɪət(ə)ri/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to an owner or ownership: "the company has a proprietary right to the property"
   • ▪ behaving as if one owned something or someone: "he looked about him with a proprietary air"
   • 2. (of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name: "proprietary brands of insecticide"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun denoting a member of a religious order who held property): from late Latin proprietarius ‘proprietor’, from proprietas (see property).

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • P

     3

   • R

     1

   • O

     1

   • P

     3

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • E

     1

   • T

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   • A

     1

   • R

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   • Y

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