proprietary
proprietary Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Manufactured, marketed, or held under an exclusive legal right, such as a patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret.
"The firm developed a proprietary algorithm that competitors are legally barred from copying."
Relating to an owner or ownership, or behaving as if one were the owner of someone or something.
"The curator took a proprietary pride in the museum's newly restored collection."
• noun
An owner or proprietor, or a body of proprietors collectively (especially one granted a colonial territory in early North American history).
"In the seventeenth century, the land was governed by a wealthy proprietary under a royal charter."
The state or legal right of owning property; proprietorship.
"Disputes over the proprietary of the estate lasted in the courts for decades."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 15th century from Late Latin proprietarius ('owner of property'), derived from Latin proprietas ('ownership'), which comes from proprius ('one's own').