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1. (adj.) proprietary
pertaining to, belonging to, or being a proprietor.
2. proprietary
pertaining to property or ownership.
3. proprietary
manufactured and sold only by the owner of the patent, trademark, etc.:
proprietary medicine.
4. proprietary
privately owned and operated for profit:
proprietary hospitals.
5. (n.) proprietary
an owner or proprietor.
6. proprietary
a body of proprietors.
7. proprietary
ownership.
8. proprietary
something owned, esp. real estate.
9. proprietary
a proprietary medicine.
10. proprietary
the grantee or owner of a proprietary colony.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME (n.) < ML proprietārius owner, n. use of LL adj.: of an owner, of ownership)
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| Definition of 'proprietary' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) proprietorship, proprietary
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
2. (adj) proprietary
protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
"`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form"
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| Definition of 'proprietary' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) proprietary
belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine
2. (noun) proprietary
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
3. (noun) proprietary
a body proprietors, taken collectively
4. (noun) proprietary
a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. proprietary
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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