proprietary

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of a proprietor or to proprietors as a group: had proprietary rights; behaved with a proprietary air in his friend's house.
2. Exclusively owned; private: a proprietary hospital.
3. Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent: a proprietary drug.

n., pl., -ies.

1. A proprietor.
2. A group of proprietors.
3. Ownership; proprietorship.
4. A proprietary medicine.
5. One granted ownership of a proprietary colony.

[From Middle English proprietarie, owner of property, from Old French proprietaire and from Medieval Latin proprietārius, both from Late Latin, of a property owner, from Latin proprietās, ownership. See property.]

proprietarily pro·pri'e·tar'i·ly adv.

Private. Proprietary hardware and software are owned and controlled by a single organization or individual. Contrast with open.

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Owned by a particular person. In Trade Secrets law, proprietary property is information or knowledge in which the person developing it has ownership rights. Such rights are usually protected by contract and have not been the subject of a Patent application.

1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers.

2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to open-systems standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor able to gouge freely on service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has locked the customer in. Often used in the phrase “proprietary crap”.

3. Synonym for closed-source or non-free, e.g. software issued without license rights permitting the public to independently review, develop and redistribute it.

Proprietary software should be distinguished from commercial software. It is possible for software to be commercial (that is, intended to make a profit for the producers) without being proprietary. The reverse is also possible, for example in binary-only freeware.

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(prō-prī′ ə-ter-ē)
adj

Controlled by a private interest; protected by patent, trademark, or copyright.

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As a noun, a proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his or her own right; one who possesses the dominion or ownership of a thing in his or her own right.

As an adjective, belonging to ownership; owned by a particular person; belonging or pertaining to a proprietor; relating to a certain owner or proprietor.

Proprietary refers to ownership or characteristics relating to ownership. It describes all the rights that the owner of property can exercise. Proprietary articles are items that are manufactured and marketed under an exclusive right.

Municipal corporations have a proprietary function, a term describing the duty or capacity of a city to enter into business ventures or to perform discretionary acts in the best interests of the citizens. Proprietary functions differ from governmental functions, which are duties that a city performs as a political subdivision of a state.

IN BRIEF: Of ownership.

I have a proprietary interest in my company.

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Common misspelling(s) of proprietary

• propietary
• proprietory

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - ejer-, ejendoms-
n. - ejendomsret

idioms:

• proprietary name    indregistreret navn
• proprietary term    firmanavn

Nederlands (Dutch)
in privé-bezit, handelsgeheim, wettelijk beschermd (zakelijk), privé

Français (French)
adj. - du propriétaire, de propriétaire, (Comm) qui est la propriété de la compagnie, breveté
n. - propriétaire, groupe de propriétaires, droit de propriété

idioms:

• proprietary name    marque déposée
• proprietary term    marque déposée

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Eigentums-, Marken-, Besitz-
n. - Markenarznei, Eigentum, Eigentümer

idioms:

• proprietary name    Markenname
• proprietary term    Markenname

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ιδιοκτησιακός, της κυριότητας, (αποκλειστικά) ιδιωτικός
n. - (φαρμακολ.) ιδιοσκεύασμα, σπεσιαλιτέ

idioms:

• proprietary name    όνομα αποκλειστικής εκμετάλλευσης
• proprietary term    όνομα αποκλειστικής εκμετάλλευσης

Italiano (Italian)
di proprietà

idioms:

• proprietary name/term    marca registrata

Português (Portuguese)
adj., -
n. - proprietário

idioms:

• proprietary name/term    marca registrada

Русский (Russian)
частный, патентованный

idioms:

• proprietary name/term    торговая марка

Español (Spanish)
adj. - patentado, privado
n. - propietario

idioms:

• proprietary name    nombre o denominación comercial
• proprietary term    nombre o denominación comercial, nombre o razón social propiedad de una compañía

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ägande
n. - äganderätt, ägare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
所有人的, 业主的, 有财产的, 所有人似的, 财产的, 所有人, 业主, 财产, 所有权, 专卖药

idioms:

• proprietary name    专利商标名
• proprietary term    所有权的用语

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 所有人的, 業主的, 有財產的, 所有人似的, 財產的
n. - 所有人, 業主, 財產, 所有權, 專賣藥

idioms:

• proprietary name    專利商標名
• proprietary term    所有權的用語

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 소유자의, 재산이 있는
n. - 소유주, 소유자단체

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 所有者の, 財産のある
n. - 所有者, 所有権, 財産

idioms:

• proprietary name/term    商標

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) امتلاكي, نسبه الى المالك (الاسم) صاحب الملكيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮משווק תחת מותג, של בעלים, קנייני, קיים כקניין פרטי‬
n. - ‮בעלים, בעלות, רכוש, בעיקר נדל"ן‬

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