proprietary
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/
The English word “proprietary” has 11 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Owning something; having ownership.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- Privately owned.
- Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
noun
- A proprietor or owner.
- 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.
- A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
Etymology
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
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More English words
- proprietariat
- proprietarily
- proprietariness
- proprietarity
- proprietary eponym
- proprietary trading
- proprietive
- proprietor
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