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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
propri′etary col′ony, [Amer. Hist.]
  1. American Historyany of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government. Cf. charter colony, royal colony. 

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