Usually means: Correctly, suitably, according to standards.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word properly:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. properly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. properly: Merriam-Webster
  3. properly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. properly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. properly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Properly, properly: Wordnik
  7. properly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. properly: Wiktionary
  9. properly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Properly, properly: Dictionary.com
  11. properly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Properly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. properly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. properly: Rhymezone
  15. properly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. properly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. PROPERLY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. properly: FreeDictionary.org
  19. properly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. properly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. properly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. properly: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. properly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. properly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. properly: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. properly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
adverb:  (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner.
adverb:  (colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.

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