Proprietary

What do we mean by proprietary?

Of or relating to a proprietor or to ownership. adjective

Privately owned, as a business. adjective

Owned by a private individual or corporation under a trademark or patent. adjective

A proprietor or group of proprietors. noun

Ownership; proprietorship. noun

A proprietary medicine. noun

One granted ownership of a proprietary colony. noun

Belonging to a proprietor or owner; of or pertaining to property or ownership: as, proprietary rights.

One who has exclusive title; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right; an owner; a proprietor; specifically, in American colonial history, the grantee or owner, or one of the owners, of one of those colonies called proprietary colonies (in distinction from charter colonies and royal colonies or provinces). See colony, 1. noun

A body of proprietors collectively: as, the proprietary of a county. noun

The right of proprietor; ownership. noun

In monasteries, a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, not withstanding his renunciation of all at the time of his profession. noun

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned. adjective

Manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. adjective

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. noun

A body proprietors, taken collectively. noun

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

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

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

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

A proprietor or owner.

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

The rights of a proprietor.

A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Proprietary software is software that you are not free to use, copy, modify, and study as you like. It's a form of abuse of users, which sucks and makes people depressed; it gives suits power over creatives. Urban Dictionary

Software that is not free software or semi-free software (the same thing as free software except that it can only be used for non-profit things). Urban Dictionary

Something said to be evil, yet nobody knows why. Urban Dictionary

A person who belongs to a CORPORATION entirely due to a system of GOVERNANCE within that very corporation that has a marked commonality of stature violations where prison in this case would not be an optimal resolvement measure. A play on PA sexually where it is an older person who belongs to that subclass Finally, the SQUIRT ASSH0LE is not inside as it is fact . Urban Dictionary

"Something that is not relevant or important at the time" Urban Dictionary

When a device uses standard or non proprietary connections, yet makes itself proprietary by only working with certain devices. A good example of this is Astro Mixamps and Astro A50 Base Stations. Sure they'll work on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but the specific Mixamp or Base Station for each platform is needed. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to proprietary:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word proprietary:
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Words that rhyme with proprietary:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe proprietary:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective proprietary:
rights, interest, information, right, systems, software, technology, system, government, schools, products, names, name, interests, preparations, medicines, format, colonies, nature, data, protocol, protocols, solutions, hospitals, product, knowledge, formats, foods, governments, technologies, colony, preparation, process, drugs, companies, claims, attitude, standards, company, control, air, institutions, funds, party, remedies, claim, school, materials, brands, compounds, homes, networks, estates, estoppel, programs, articles, class, mixtures, processes, extensions, language, designs, capacity, rule, medicine, firms, research, governor, solution, interfaces, tools, databases, lease, hardware, code, feeling, standard, network, algorithms, assets, title, remedy, functions, brand, design, pride, applications, accounts, models, database.

Consonant match to proprietary:
proprietary e.

Words that sound like proprietary:
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