proprietary

English

Etymology

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietarius. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɹɑɪ.ə.teɪɹ.i/

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Adjective

proprietary (comparative more proprietary, superlative most proprietary)

1. Of or relating to property or ownership.

   proprietary rights

2. Owning something; having ownership.

   the proprietary class

3. 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.

4. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

   a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure

5. Privately owned.

   a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel

6. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

Translations

relating to property or ownership

• Finnish: oma (fi), omistus-
• Greek: ιδιοκτησιακός (el) m (idioktisiakós)
• Hebrew: קִנְיָנִי‎‎
• Polish: własnościowy
• Portuguese: proprietário (pt)

• Romanian: proprietar (ro), de proprietate
• Russian: со́бственнический (ru) (sóbstvenničeskij), проприета́рный (ru) (proprijetárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: vlasnički (sh)
• Spanish: propietario (es), de propiedad

of or relating to the quality of being an owner

• Finnish: omistava (fi), omistaja-
• Georgian: დაპატენტებული (daṗaṭenṭebuli), პატენტიანი (ṗaṭenṭiani)
• Polish: własnościowy

• Portuguese: proprietário (pt)
• Russian: патенто́ванный (ru) (patentóvannyj) (patent)
• Serbo-Croatian: vlasnički (sh)

manufactured exclusively by the IPR owner

• Finnish: alkuperäinen (fi), alkuperäis-
• German: proprietär (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: proprietær (no)

  Nynorsk: proprietær

• Portuguese: proprietário (pt)
• Russian: проприета́рный (ru) (proprijetárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: originalan (sh), licenciran
• Spanish: privativo m

privately owned

• Georgian: კერძო (ḳerʒo)
• Portuguese: privado (pt), particular (pt)

• Russian: ча́стный (ru) (částnyj), прива́тный (ru) (privátnyj)
• Spanish: privado (es), particular (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} propraĵa
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} proprietari

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} proprietär

Noun

proprietary (plural proprietaries)

1. A proprietor or owner.

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2. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
3. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.