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Proprietary
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- 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 or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
"The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products."
- 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"
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- 6 Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
- 1 protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights wordnet
- 1 A proprietor or owner.
"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"
- 2 an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits wordnet
- 3 A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
- 4 The rights of a proprietor.
- 5 A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
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- 6 A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
"For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters."
Etymology
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
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