Definitions for proprietary
prəˈpraɪ ɪˌtɛr ipro·pri·eta·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. proprietorship, proprietaryadjective

   an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

2. proprietaryadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. proprietaryadjective

   Of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights.

2. proprietaryadjective

   Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as the proprietary class.

3. proprietaryadjective

   Manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a patent or trade secret.

   The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.

4. proprietaryadjective

   Privately owned, as a proprietary lake.

5. proprietaryadjective

   Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

6. Etymology: From propriétaire, from proprietarius. Compare with the Latin proprietas, and proprius.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Proprietaryadjective

   Belonging to a certain owner.

   Though sheep, which are proprietary, are seldom marked, yet they are not apt to straggle. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

2. Proprietarynoun

   Possessor in his own right.

   Etymology: proprietaire, Fr. from propriety.

   ’Tis a great mistake to think ourselves stewards in some of God’s gifts, and proprietaries in others: they are all equally to be employed, according to the designation of the donor. Government of the Tongue.

ChatGPTRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. proprietary

   Proprietary refers to something that is owned and controlled by an individual or a company, and is unique or exclusive to them. This could refer to goods, technologies, items, methods, or software, for which the owner has the exclusive rights and control over its distribution or usage. This term often implies that a special or unique solution or product is not shared openly or available to the general public.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. Proprietarynoun

   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

2. Proprietarynoun

   a body proprietors, taken collectively

3. Proprietarynoun

   a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession

4. Proprietaryadjective

   belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine

5. Etymology: [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propritaire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of proprietary in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of proprietary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of proprietary in a Sentence

1. Olli Heinonen:

   This is a very unusual IAEA verification approach, which has no reason to be confidential unless a very special reason - proprietary, economic or security - calls for it.

2. Jeff Bezos:

   Getting there was hard. Technically hard, we had to design and build our own proprietary cameras and shelves and invent new computer vision algorithms, including the ability to stitch together imagery from hundreds of cooperating cameras. And we had to do it in a way where the technology worked so well that it simply receded into the background, invisible.

3. Barack Obama:

   This will probably be one of the biggest topics I discuss with President Xi, we have repeatedly said to the Chinese government that we understand traditional intelligence-gathering functions that all states, including us, engage in. ... That is fundamentally different from your government or its proxies engaging directly in industrial espionage and stealing trade secrets, stealing proprietary information from companies. That we consider an act of aggression that has to stop.

4. Intercontinental Exchange:

   It is standard practice for proprietary data feeds to provide more granular order level information than consolidated feed.

5. John Marley:

   FX trading in banks is a tough business because spot trading is so commoditized and revenues are squeezed, moreover, banks have rolled back their proprietary trading desks due to the extra capital required and lower risk appetite.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=proprietary
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Proprietary
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=proprietary
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proprietary
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Proprietary