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subpatents

subpatents is the plural of subpatent.

Meaning of subpatent

Noun

subpatent (plural subpatents)

  1. A legal grant for a subdivision of a patent or giving less than complete ownership rights.
    • It soon became the chief purpose of the company to parcel out these vast holdings, either in individual plantations or, through subpatents, in blocks of thousands of acres.1941, Archibald Henderson, North Carolina: The Old North State and the New, volume 1, page 33

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Questions about subpatents

What is subpatents the plural of?
Subpatents is the plural of subpatent.

Words near subpatents in the dictionary

  1. subpastors
  2. subpatellar
  3. subpatency
  4. subpatent
  5. subpatently
  6. subpatents
  7. subpath
  8. subpathogenic
  9. subpathotype
  10. subpathotypes
  11. subpaths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subpatents (page history and authors); subpatent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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