- (especially British English) in a way that is correct and/or appropriate
- How much money do we need to do the job properly?
- The television isn't working properly.
- The baby was put on a ventilator to help her lungs function properly.
- Make sure the letter is properly addressed.
- Businesses should ensure that staff are properly trained in how to use new systems.
- Paine believed that 'Liberty, properly understood, consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another.'
- in a way that is socially or morally acceptable
- You acted perfectly properly in approaching me first.
- When will these kids learn to behave properly?
- really; in fact
- He had usurped powers that properly belonged to parliament.
- The subject is not, properly speaking (= really), a science.
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