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nonproprietary

nonproprietary adjective: lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).

Adjective

nonproprietary (not comparable)

  1. Lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
    1. Not protected by trademark, patent, or trade secret and thus open to commercial use without license; said of drugs (medications) and of various kinds of goods and materials.

Noun

nonproprietary (plural nonproprietaries)

  1. A drug that is not proprietary.
    Synonyms:
    generic

Synonyms of nonproprietary

Forms of nonproprietary

Adjective
alternative formnon-proprietary
Noun
pluralnonproprietaries

Origin of nonproprietary

From non- + proprietary.

Words formed from nonproprietary

Phrases with nonproprietary

Questions about nonproprietary

What does nonproprietary mean?
Nonproprietary means lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
What part of speech is nonproprietary?
Nonproprietary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonproprietary in the dictionary

  1. nonproportionate
  2. nonproposal
  3. nonproposals
  4. nonpropositional
  5. nonproprietaries
  6. nonproprietary
  7. nonproprietor
  8. nonproprietors
  9. nonproprioceptive
  10. nonpropulsion
  11. nonpropulsive

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