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Webster 1913 Edition
Proprietary
Pro-pri′e-ta-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Proprietaries
(#)
. 1.
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.
Fuller.
2.
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3.
(Eccl.)
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
Pro-pri′e-ta-ry
,Adj.
[L.
proprietarius
.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned;
as,
. proprietary
medicineProprietary articles
, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
U. S. Statutes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Proprietary
PROPRI'ETARY
, n.1.
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 own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces.2.
In monasteries, such monks were called proprietaries, as had reserved goods and effects to themselves, notwithstanding their renunciation of all at the time of their profession.PROPRI'ETARY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
proprietary
proprietary
English
Adjective
proprietary (comparative more proprietary, superlative most proprietary)
- Of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights.
- Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as the proprietary class.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
- 1996, Michael Craig Budden, Protecting Trade Secrets under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Practical Advice for Executives, Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, ISBN 978-1-56720-016-4, page 20:
- It was reported that the recipes for the secret sauce and grinder sandwiches were proprietary, known only to the current president of the corporation and the former owner of the restaurant.
- Nonstandard and used only by one particular organization, as a proprietary extension to a standard.
- Privately owned, as a proprietary lake.
- (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
Translations
relating to property or ownership
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of or relating to the quality of being an owner
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manufactured exclusively by the IPR owner
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privately owned
Noun
proprietary (plural proprietaries)
- A proprietor or owner.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
- A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
- A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.