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Proprietary
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Meaning
Adj
●
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.
●
Possessive,
jealous
, or territorial.
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.
●
In Espionage:
A company doing
legitimate
business while also
serving
as a front for espionage.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
proprietary
English
propriétaire
French
proprietarius
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Precompiled
Software
Private
Modular
Interoperable
Confidential
Patented
Middleware
Secret
Hardware
Programmable
Generic
Hackable
Standardised
Patentable
Apis
Specialized
Secretive
Licensed
Propitiatory
Unsecured
Platform
Scalable
Transparent
Expensive
Functional
Solution
Customizable
Successor
Permissioned
Secure
Closed Source
Open Source
Vendor Agnostic
Standards Compliant
Free Software
Intellectual Property
Third Party
Trade Secrets
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