proprietaries
USpruh-PRY-uh-ter-eez/pɹəˈpɹaɪ.əˌtɛɹ.iz/Saypruh-PRY-uh-tuh-reezUK/pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹiz/AUS/pɹəˈpɹɑɪ.ə.tə.ɹiz/
- 1Plural of proprietary.
Colonists often quarreled with the proprietaries who held the royal charter.
Nineteenth-century newspapers were crowded with ads for proprietaries promising miraculous cures.
proprietaries is a form of proprietary
proprietary, noun: A person who owns something, especially property or a business. Full entry
- Forms
- proprietaryproprietaries plural
- Spelling
- proprietary → proprietaries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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