non-proprietary

adjective

1. belonging to a proprietor.
2. being a proprietor; holding property: the proprietary class.
3. pertaining to property or ownership: proprietary wealth.
4. belonging or controlled as property.
5. (of a brand name, product, service, formula, etc.) protected by a patent, copyright, or trademark: proprietary drugs; a proprietary name; a proprietary logo; a proprietary blend of ingredients.
6. privately owned and operated for profit: proprietary hospitals.

noun, plural pro·pri·e·tar·ies.

7. an owner or proprietor.
8. a body of proprietors.
9. American History. the grantee or owner, or one of the grantees or owners, of a proprietary colony.
10. ownership.
11. something owned, especially real estate.
12. a proprietary medicine.
13. Also called proprietary school. a school organized as a profit-making venture primarily to teach vocational skills or self-improvement techniques.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to property or proprietors
2. privately owned and controlled
3. med of or denoting a drug or agent manufactured and distributed under a trade nameCompare ethical (def. 3)

noun plural -taries

4. med a proprietary drug or agent
5. a proprietor or proprietors collectively
6. 1. right to property
   2. property owned
7. Also called: lord proprietary (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony

adj.mid-15c., “possessing worldly goods in excess of a cleric’s needs,” from Medieval Latin proprietarius “owner of property,” noun use of Late Latin adjective proprietarius “of a property holder,” from Latin proprietas “owner” (see property). Meaning “held in private ownership” is first attested 1580s. The word was used earlier in English as a noun meaning “proprietor,” also “worldly person” (c.1400), from a noun use in French and Medieval Latin. adj.

1. Exclusively owned, as of a hospital.
2. Owned by an individual or corporation under a trademark or patent, as of a drug.

n.

1. A proprietary medicine.