proprietary

Of or relating to a proprietor or to ownership.

Privately owned, as a business.

Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent.

A proprietor or group of proprietors.

Ownership; proprietorship.

A proprietary medicine.

One granted ownership of a proprietary colony.

Belonging to a proprietor or owner; of or pertaining to property or ownership: as, proprietary rights.

One who has exclusive title; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right; an owner; a proprietor; specifically, in American colonial history, the grantee or owner, or one of the owners, of one of those colonies called proprietary colonies (in distinction from charter colonies and royal colonies or provinces). See colony, 1.

A body of proprietors collectively: as, the proprietary of a county.