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Proprietary (adjective)
Of or relating to property or ownership.
“proprietary rights”
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Proprietary (adjective)
Owning something; having ownership.
“the proprietary class”
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Proprietary (adjective)
Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
“The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.”
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Proprietary (adjective)
Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
“a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure”
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Proprietary (adjective)
Privately owned.
“a proprietary lake; a proprietary chapel”
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Proprietary (adjective)
Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
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Proprietary (noun)
A proprietor or owner.
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Proprietary (noun)
A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
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Proprietary (noun)
The rights of a proprietor.
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Proprietary (noun)
A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
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Confidential (adjective)
Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly
“The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.”
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Confidential (adjective)
Inclined to share confidences.
“Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential, and began to gossip.”
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Proprietary (adjective)
relating to an owner or ownership
“the company has a proprietary right to the property”
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Proprietary (adjective)
behaving as if one owned something or someone
“he looked about him with a proprietary air”
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Proprietary (adjective)
(of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name
“proprietary brands of insecticide”
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Confidential (adjective)
intended to be kept secret
“confidential information”
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Confidential (adjective)
(of a person’s tone of voice) indicating that what one says is private or secret
“he dropped his voice to a confidential whisper”
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Confidential (adjective)
entrusted with private or restricted information
“a confidential secretary”