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Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
Mitchell Baker

Meaning of "proprietary" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROPRIETARY

From Late Latin proprietārius an owner, from proprius one's own.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROPRIETARY

proprietary  [prəˈpraɪɪtərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROPRIETARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proprietary can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROPRIETARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Proprietary

The term proprietary relates to property or ownership. Proprietary may refer to: ▪ Proprietary chapel ▪ Proprietary church ▪ Proprietary colleges ▪ Proprietary colony ▪ Proprietary community ▪ Proprietary company ▪ Proprietary eponym ▪ Proprietary extension ▪ Proprietary format ▪ Proprietary hardware ▪ Proprietary lock-in ▪ Proprietary name ▪ Proprietary protocol ▪ Proprietary software ▪ Proprietary trading ▪ Trade secret...

Definition of proprietary in the English dictionary

The first definition of proprietary in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to property or proprietors. Other definition of proprietary is privately owned and controlled. Proprietary is also a proprietary drug or agent.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROPRIETARY


auditory
ˈɔːdɪtərɪ
budgetary
ˈbʌdʒɪtərɪ
circulatory
ˌsɜːkjʊˈleɪtərɪ
depository
dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ
dormitory
ˈdɔːmɪtərɪ
glittery
ˈɡlɪtərɪ
hereditary
hɪˈrɛdɪtərɪ
inhibitory
ɪnˈhɪbɪtərɪ
military
ˈmɪlɪtərɪ
monetary
ˈmʌnɪtərɪ
monitory
ˈmɒnɪtərɪ
oscillatory
ˌɒsɪˈleɪtərɪ
participatory
pɑːtɪsɪˈpeɪtərɪ
planetary
ˈplænɪtərɪ
regulatory
ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪtərɪ
repository
rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ
sanitary
ˈsænɪtərɪ
solitary
ˈsɒlɪtərɪ
territory
ˈtɛrɪtərɪ
unitary
ˈjuːnɪtərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROPRIETARY

propretor
proprietaries
proprietarily
proprietary brand
proprietary colony
proprietary medicine
proprietary name
proprietary rights
proprieties
proprietor
proprietorial
proprietorially
proprietorship
proprietress
proprietrix
propriety
proprioception
proprioceptive
proprioceptor
proprium

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROPRIETARY

assistant secretary
Chief Secretary
cometary
company secretary
defence secretary
Deputy Secretary
dietary
elementary
executive secretary
foreign secretary
General Secretary
Home Secretary
Honorary Secretary
interplanetary
nonproprietary
parliamentary private secretary
press secretary
secretary
shadow Foreign Secretary
Treasury Secretary
undersecretary

Synonyms and antonyms of proprietary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «proprietary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROPRIETARY

Find out the translation of proprietary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of proprietary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «proprietary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

品牌专卖的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

patentado
570 millions of speakers

English

proprietary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मालिकाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фирменная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proprietário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মালিকানা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de marque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proprietari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Marken-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

登録商標をもつ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전매 상표가 붙은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tertutup
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độc quyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உரிமையுடைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वामित्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tescilli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proprietario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zastrzeżony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фірмова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de proprietate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιόκτητο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eiendom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proprietary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proprietær
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proprietary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPRIETARY»

The term «proprietary» is very widely used and occupies the 11.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROPRIETARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «proprietary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «proprietary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about proprietary

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROPRIETARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word proprietary.
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Mitchell Baker
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
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Jim Bankoff
I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.
3
Clayton Christensen
During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.
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Clayton M. Christensen
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
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Mos Def
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
6
John Gutfreund
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
7
David Lehman
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Matt Mullenweg
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
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Tim O'Reilly
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROPRIETARY»

Discover the use of proprietary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proprietary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proprietary Claims & Remedies
Professor Cope, author of Australia's leading work on constructive trusts, turns his attention to a major problem area for practitioners working in fields of bankruptcy and insolvency - the nature of equitable proprietary claims, the range ...
Malcolm Cope, 1997
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One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of ...
An important contribution to trading literature, the book will help all traders by: Emphasizing the development of skills that are critical to success, such as the fundamentals of One Good Trade, Reading the Tape, and finding Stocks In Play ...
Mike Bellafiore, 2010
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Proprietary Remedies in Context: A Study in the Judicial ...
This volume examines redistributive processes such as tracing, subrogation and proprietary estoppel and the use of the constructive trust in the context of contracts to assign property, and the breakdown of intimate relationships.
Craig Rotherham, 2002
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Proprietary Engines for Vehicles
ABOUT THE BOOK Famous vehicle firms like Kenworth, Railton, Jensen, ERF, Morgan and Peterbilt have never made their own engines.
Nick Baldwin, 2001
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The Prop Trader's Chronicles: Short-Term Proprietary Trading ...
With this book as your guide, you'll quickly discover what it really takes to make it in today's competitive markets.
Francis J. Chan, 2012
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Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in ...
These essays on early modern Atlantic empires provide the first comprehensive treatment of this important vehicle of imperial formation and colonial development.
Louis H. Roper, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, 2007
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Revolution in Fat Loss: Patel Proprietary Diet
The purpose of this book is to help you in becoming healthy.
Anil Manu Patel, 2011
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Proprietary Schools: Stronger Department of Education ...
For-profit schools -- also known as proprietary schools -- received over $16 billion in federal loans, grants, and campus-based aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act in 2007/08.
George A. Scott, 2010
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Loss Prevention and Security Procedures: Practical ...
Security operations have traditionally been divided into two broad categories, contract and proprietary. Contract security is all those companies and individuals who are hired on contract to provide a wide variety of security services, ranging ...
Robert J. Fischer, Richard Janoski, 2000
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The Manager's Handbook for Corporate Security: Establishing ...
THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF A PROPRIETARY SECURITY ORGANIZATION With any activity, there are reasons to perform that activity and reasons not to internally perform that activity. Depending on conditions and ...
Gerald L. Kovacich, Edward P. Halibozek, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROPRIETARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proprietary is used in the context of the following news items.
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Angie's List sues Amazon subsidiary over proprietary info
The consumer reviews service Angie's List has filed a federal lawsuit against Amazon Local, accusing the Amazon.com subsidiary of stealing proprietary ... «The Seattle Times, Jun 15»
2
Exclusive - EU presidency wants to ditch ban on proprietary trading …
The bloc's executive European Commission has proposed a draft law to ban proprietary trading at banks and force lenders to isolate other forms of risky trading ... «Reuters UK, Mar 15»
3
Proposed new regulatory landscape for proprietary trading firms
As the result of a recent series of proposed new and amended rules and regulations, firms whose business is proprietary trading in the financial markets—such ... «Lexology, Mar 15»
4
RBC Proprietary-Trading-Desk Spinoff Plan Nixed by Regulators
Royal Bank of Canada dropped a plan to spin off a lucrative proprietary-trading business into a hedge fund after U.S. regulators rejected the move, people ... «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»
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NEC Takes First Place in NIST's Proprietary Fingerprint Template Test
Part of an ongoing NIST program, The Proprietary Fingerprint Template Test, or PFT II, is meant to measure the performance of fingerprint matching software. «findBIOMETRICS, Aug 14»
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RBI lifts curbs on forex proprietary trading by banks
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday once again allowed banks to engage in proprietary trading in the exchange-traded currency derivatives ... «Livemint, Jun 14»
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RBC to Close Proprietary-Trading Desk
The Royal Bank of Canada is planning to close one of the last proprietary-trading desks on Wall Street, another win for regulators that have pushed banks to cut ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 14»
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Proprietary firmware poses a security threat, Ubuntu founder says
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, believes proprietary and unverifiable firmware code poses a serious security threat to ... «PCWorld, Mar 14»
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EU Unveils Plan on Proprietary Trading
BRUSSELS—The European Union unveiled a long-delayed plan to rein in banks' proprietary trading and give supervisors the power to split off risky trading ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 14»
10
EU bank trading plan stops short of US Volcker Rule
Proprietary trading ban would only affect biggest lenders. * Exemptions from bans available to national regulators. * Proposal unlikely to be approved until 2015 ... «Reuters, Jan 14»

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