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adj
Lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: generic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A drug that is not proprietary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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Synonyms: generic
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
not protected by trademark or patent or copyright
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: proprietary
History
From non- + proprietary.
