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belonging to only one person, unit, or group and not used by or available to others
- The restaurant's proprietary recipe for barbecue sauce is only known to the head chef.
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“Proprietary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proprietary. Accessed 1 Aug. 2021.
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