Crossword clues for proprietary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.] Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some
person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
--U. S. Statutes.
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Proprietaries. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.]
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.A body proprietors, taken collectively.
(Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "possessing worldly goods in excess of a cleric's needs," from Medieval Latin proprietarius "owner of property," noun use of Late Latin adjective proprietarius "of a property holder," from Latin proprietas "owner" (see property). Meaning "held in private ownership" is first attested 1580s. The word was used earlier in English as a noun meaning "proprietor," also "worldly person" (c.1400), from a noun use in French and Medieval Latin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to property or ownership, as ''proprietary rights''. 2 Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as ''the proprietary class''. 3 Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret. 4 Privately owned, as ''a proprietary lake''. 5 (context of a person English) possessive, jealous, or territorial. n. 1 A proprietor or owner. 2 A body of proprietors, taken collectively. 3 A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
WordNet
adj. 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" [ant: nonproprietary]
n. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits [syn: proprietorship]
Wikipedia
Proprietary is an adjective related to property or ownership. It may also refer to:
- Proprietary chapel, a chapel that originally belonged to a person, but open to the public
- Proprietary church, a church built on private ground by a feudal lord
- Proprietary education or For-profit higher education in the United States, educational institutions operated by private businesses
- Proprietary colony, an early North American colony granted by the English Crown to one or more proprietors
- Proprietary community, a community property owned by a single person or entity
- Proprietary company, a form of privately-held company in Australia and South Africa
- Proprietary DVR, methodologies used to maintain commercial control over the DVR format
- Proprietary eponym or Generic trademark, a trademark or brand name that has become a generic name
- Proprietary estoppel, a legal mechanism to acquire rights over property, especially land
- Proprietary format, a privately owned digital-file format
- Proprietary governor, the governor of a proprietary colony
- Proprietary hardware, computer hardware whose interface is controlled by the proprietor
- Proprietary House, a mansion in New Jersey built for the proprietary governor in 1764
- Proprietary lock-in or Vendor lock-in, creating customer dependency on a vendor for products and services
- Proprietary protocol, communications protocol owned by a single organization or individual
- Proprietary software, software for which the publisher or another person retains intellectual-property rights
- Proprietary trading, the practice of trading financial instruments with a firm's own money
Usage examples of "proprietary".
Silicon Valley billionaire buddies from AOL and Oracle, the US Justice Department compelled Microsoft to divulge its proprietary codes and license Windows software to the Gore-Techs at a government-capped price.
Industrialization and agricultural recovery were far more pressing concerns than the doubtful proprietary rights of either the Moslem nomads or the Sambusai pastoralists who often used this land.
The company wanted to create a strong presence in the marketplace by promoting easy, economical access to the Internet and proprietary information services covering the state of New Jersey.
He was an older man, his shoulders slightly stooped, one of those retainers who had been with Lady Rangle so long that he felt proprietary about her time and attention.
Although the proprietors of the most popular proprietary medicines in the market, medicines carefully adapted to the cure of the diseases for which they are recommended, yet, should we attempt to get up a general remedy to cure spermatorrhea and kindred maladies, we are certain it would be an utter failure, and this is entirely true of all such preparations now and heretofore offered for sale, and, from the very nature of the diseases they are recommended to cure, ever must be.
Garrick carefully unpried her hand and placed it back in her lap, giving it a proprietary pat.
I sat here and tried to figure out how Bill Whitten could end up with Alpha-Cyte proprietary information, and finally, it dawned on me.
Like most surgeons Melinda had dealt with, Billingsgate had strong proprietary feelings toward his operation designs, but he was also experienced enough not to simply ignore the recommendations of a good consultant.
VVhich aspects of the business are likely to remain proprietary9 When Quick Chek Food Stores wanted to create proprietary brands within its 100-plus stores, the concept was to compete with national brands.
The agency authorized the use of its secret proprietary airline, Intermountain Aviation, based at Marana Air Park north of Tucson, Arizona.
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any word processing or hypertext form.
When we establish our own warranties, personalized products, image, customer service policies and personahties, we are on our way to establishing proprietary inventory.
Such independent Connecticut people were, of course, quite out of place in a proprietary colony, and, when in 1670 the first collection of quitrents was attempted, they broke out in violent opposition, in which the settlers of Elizabeth were prominent.
This alone or in conjunction with a dash of some one of the many really good proprietary sauces on the market is well-nigh indispensable in chafing-dish cookery.
Stores create magical Toylands to appeal to the younger set and often tie in a proprietary stuffed animal with a storewide promotion.