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proprietorialmeaning

adjective·C2·13 letters

possessive, acting as if one owns something

Example sentence

He took a proprietorial attitude toward the shared kitchen.

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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