Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a proprietor or to ownership.
- adjective Privately owned, as a business.
- adjective Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent.
- noun A proprietor or group of proprietors.
- noun Ownership; proprietorship.
- noun A proprietary medicine.
- noun One granted ownership of a proprietary colony.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to a proprietor or owner; of or pertaining to property or ownership: as, proprietary rights.
- noun One who has exclusive title; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right; an owner; a proprietor; specifically, in American colonial history, the grantee or owner, or one of the owners, of one of those colonies called
proprietary colonies (in distinction from charter colonies and royal colonies or provinces). Seecolony , 1. - noun A body of proprietors collectively: as, the proprietary of a county.
- noun The right of proprietor; ownership.
- noun In monasteries, a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, not withstanding his renunciation of all at the time of his profession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
- noun A body proprietors, taken collectively.
- noun (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
- adjective Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned.
- adjective manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
property or ownership, as proprietary rights. - adjective Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as the proprietary class.
- adjective Manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a
patent ortrade secret . - adjective Privately owned, as a proprietary lake.
- adjective of a person
Possessive ,jealous , orterritorial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
- noun an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But after Lehman went bankrupt, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker often talked about proprietary trading at banks, and the term "proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading," explains Overdahl.
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But after Lehman went bankrupt, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker often talked about proprietary trading at banks, and the term "proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading," explains Overdahl.
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Most mother boards for laptops are what they call proprietary, meaning that each company that make laptop mother boards have a unique configuration for the Ram slots and cpu location, etc.
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That's long been a sticking point in the debate, with companies expressing reluctance to publicly disclose what they call their proprietary fracking cocktails, and environmental groups and other opponents calling that reluctance a specious attempt to frustrate efforts that would link the chemical formulas to groundwater contamination.
Mark Ruffalo: It's Time To Move On From Fracking And Fossil Fuels 2011
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The company uses what it calls a proprietary "closed-cell resin material" called Croslite to create pliable, lightweight, nonmarking and odor-resistant shoes that mold to fit the wearer's feet.
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"proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading," explains
Forbes.com: News 2010
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Large U.S. banks have already been forced to close profitable businesses such as trading with their own funds, or what is known as proprietary trading.
Goldman's Conundrum For 2012 Francesco Guerrera 2011
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The "multiple standards which ensure interoperability at zero cost" is a nice Trojan Horse to sneak in proprietary standards.
Draft on open source standards splits IT industry: Economic Times Report Venky 2009
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If this data is stored in proprietary formats, it will prove expensive for the country in the long-term.
Archive 2009-07-03 Venky 2009
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Another disadvantage of e-readers is the built-in proprietary content.
Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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