proprietary drug

1. 1.

   a drug that has a trade name and is protected by a patent (can be produced and sold only by the company holding the patent)

   Synonymsbrand-name drug

   Broaderdrug

Questions about proprietary drug

What does proprietary drug mean?

proprietary drug means "a drug that has a trade name and is protected by a patent (can be produced and sold only by the company holding the patent)".

What is another word for proprietary drug?

Close synonyms include brand-name drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is proprietary drug a common word?

proprietary drug 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.