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pro·pri·e·tary 1 /prə-'prī-ə-ˌter-ē/ n pl -tar·ies1: something that is used, produced, or marketed under exclusive legal right of the inventor or maker; specif: a drug (as a patent medicine) that is protected by secrecy, patent, or copyright against free competition as to name, product, composition, or process of manufacture2: a business secretly owned by and run as a cover for an intelligence operationproprietary 2 adj1 a: held as property of a private ownerb: of, relating to, or characteristic of a proprietor2: used, made, or marketed by one having the exclusive legal righta proprietary process3: privately owned and managed and run as a profit-making organizationa proprietary insurera proprietary clinic4: of or relating to the acts of a municipality which profit or benefit the municipality and for which it is answerable in negligence
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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entailed, exclusive, holding property, landed, pertaining to ownership, pertaining to property, praedial, restrictive
associated concepts: proprietary function, proprietary interest, proprietary lease, proprietary right
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ownership, proprietor
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Related to ownership; acting like an owner; owned by a particular person or company; sold under a trade name.n.An owner or proprietor.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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Refers to ownership.Category: Business, LLCs & Corporations
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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adj. Held by a single particular person. Trade secret laws hold that the person who developed information or knowledge has ownership and property rights to her/his proprietary material. That right is usually protected by contract rather than by patent.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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As a noun, a proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his or her own right; one who possesses the dominion or ownership of a thing in his or her own right.As an adjective, belonging to ownership; owned by a particular person; belonging or pertaining to a proprietor; relating to a certain owner or proprietor.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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As a noun, a proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his or her own right; one who possesses the dominion or ownership of a thing in his or her own right.As an adjective, belonging to ownership; owned by a particular person; belonging or pertaining to a proprietor; relating to a certain owner or proprietor.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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adj.referring to ownership.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.