proprietary colony

1. 1.

   a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)

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Questions about proprietary colony

What does proprietary colony mean?

proprietary colony means "a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)".

Is proprietary colony a common word?

proprietary colony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.