To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
To supply to retail outlets.
To scatter or spread.
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
To deliver or pass out.
To divide into portions and dispense.
To classify or separate into categories.
To be distributive.
To apportion (more or less evenly).
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
Protected by a legal patent.
Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
Explicit and obvious.
Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.
A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.
A licence or (formal) permission to do something.
An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.
A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.
A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.