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. Use it when you mean more than one.
In colonial times, the Penn family were the proprietaries of Pennsylvania.
Old drugstores sold many proprietaries that claimed to cure almost anything.
proprietaries is a form of proprietary
proprietary, noun: A person who owns something. Full entry
- Forms
- proprietaryproprietaries plural
- Spelling
- proprietary → proprietaries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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