proprietary

noun

A proprietor or owner.

The rights of a proprietor.

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

(espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.

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

adjective

Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.

Of or relating to property or ownership.

Owning something; having ownership.

Privately owned.

Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

(of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

Roots

propriuspropri- · Latin · one's own

Synonyms for proprietary

proprietorshipn ownershipn possessoryadj proprietorn

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