proprietary
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1. proprietary - Noun
2. proprietary - Adjective
Meaning
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.
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
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`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which `acetaminophen' is the generic form
20. We pray that every proprietary parson or vicar having a benefice of 10 or more by year, shall either by themselves, or by some other person teach poor men’s children of their parish the book called the catechism and the primer.
3D printing Some 3D printing providers have developed proprietary stainless steel sintering blends for use in rapid prototyping.
According to a release, Berry’s new line is targeted towards the industrial face mask and cabin air filtration markets and will be equipped with the company’s proprietary charging technology.
According to Cooper, “InnerSource is the use of open source methods inside the firewall in a proprietary company because it’s a better way to write software.”
Additionally, the Group will focus on investing and developing V2X business through IFS and increase investment in R&D of IFS in order to expand its proprietary products.