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Meaning of proprietary in English

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proprietary
At the same time, the cost of prescribing branded drugs—the proprietaries—has risen from under £10 million to £78 million a year.
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The question of proprietaries is the one that interests the public most.
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The increase in average cost represents an increased proportion of proprietaries and other expensive drugs, rather than an increase in the prices of individual drugs.
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Both these forms of guidance should avoid the use of expensive proprietaries where there is any suitable standard alternative.
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In the case of proprietaries advertised to the public, legislation prohibits the advertising of medicines in certain circumstances.
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They were disappointed that negotiations had so far been concluded for only two out of 8,000 proprietaries.
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In the pharmaceutical field we had two main lines of investigation, first into the basic drugs and, secondly, into the proprietaries.
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Is the consultant who likes to prescribe expensive proprietaries, when much cheaper standard preparations are equally efficacious, communicated with?
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The proprietaries are by no means the only problem.
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Concern has been expressed among general practitioners about the high-pressure salesmanship used to persuade them to prescribe proprietaries.
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The ostrich was also legally transformed into private property, with enclosure recognized as conferring proprietary rights.
Under the ancien regime, the privileged theatres had acquired proprietary rights over dramatic works performed on their stages.
Drugs should be given their approved, not proprietary, names and the source of any new or experimental preparation should be given.
The basic approach is to provide a standard representation language and to provide a set of transformation concepts for integrating proprietary product representations.
Proprietary configuration systems can then be independently implemented following different approaches and still be able to interoperate.
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Translations of proprietary

in Chinese (Traditional)
所有(人)的,業主的, 專有的, 專賣的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
所有(人)的,业主的, 专有的, 专卖的…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in Russian
firmowy…
patentli, tescilli, müseccel…
составляющий чью-либо собственность…
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