proprietary
IPA: prʌprˈaɪʌtɛri
noun
- 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.
- (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
adjective
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Owning something; having ownership.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- Privately owned.
- (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
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Examples of "proprietary" in Sentences
- Free is the opposite of proprietary.
- The proprietary software is safe to use.
- The connector on the camera has a proprietary shape.
- The software is proprietary, the license is freeware.
- The server part of the network is proprietary freeware.
- The rest of the authors have no interest in proprietary.
- The nature of the new cathode is proprietary at this time.
- The process used for producing the additive is proprietary.
- Actions of the team imply a proprietary interest in the content.
- Another disadvantage of e-readers is the built-in proprietary content.
- The Perforce database is proprietary, preconfigured, and self installed.
- If this data is stored in proprietary formats, it will prove expensive for the country in the long-term.
- The "multiple standards which ensure interoperability at zero cost" is a nice Trojan Horse to sneak in proprietary standards.
- Large U.S. banks have already been forced to close profitable businesses such as trading with their own funds, or what is known as proprietary trading.
- "proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading," explains
- Most mother boards for laptops are what they call proprietary, meaning that each company that make laptop mother boards have a unique configuration for the Ram slots and cpu location, etc.
- The company uses what it calls a proprietary "closed-cell resin material" called Croslite to create pliable, lightweight, nonmarking and odor-resistant shoes that mold to fit the wearer's feet.
- But after Lehman went bankrupt, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker often talked about proprietary trading at banks, and the term "proprietary" became confusing (to say nothing of, dare we say, sullied.) "They wanted to distinguish what they do from other firms that use the term proprietary trading," explains Overdahl.
- That's long been a sticking point in the debate, with companies expressing reluctance to publicly disclose what they call their proprietary fracking cocktails, and environmental groups and other opponents calling that reluctance a specious attempt to frustrate efforts that would link the chemical formulas to groundwater contamination.