proprietary
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietarius. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/, /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tɛ.ɹi/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective[edit]
proprietary (comparative more proprietary, superlative most proprietary)
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- proprietary rights
- Owning something; having ownership.
- the proprietary class
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
- 1996, Michael Craig Budden, Protecting Trade Secrets under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Practical Advice for Executives, Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, →ISBN, page 20:
- It was reported that the recipes for the secret sauce and grinder sandwiches were proprietary, known only to the current president of the corporation and the former owner of the restaurant.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
- Privately owned.
- a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
- (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
Translations[edit]
relating to property or ownership
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of or relating to the quality of being an owner
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created or manufactured exclusively by the IPR owner
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privately owned
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Noun[edit]
proprietary (plural proprietaries)
- A proprietor or owner.
- 1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience
- Wherefore what issue soever shall result from my mind , by his means most happily married to a retired life , must , of due , redound to his honour , as the sole proprietary of my pains during my present condition
- 1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience
- A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
- The rights of a proprietor.
- A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
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