proprietary
About 3.23 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of or relating to property or ownership.
proprietary rights
- adjective Owning something; having ownership.
the proprietary class
- adjective 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.
- adjective Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
- adjective Privately owned.
a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel
- adjective Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
- noun A proprietor or owner.
- noun A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
Similar words
proprietorship patented copyright trademarked copyrighted branded ownership property owner proprietor
Often followed by
rights interest information and right government software or interests
Word family
proprietaries
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