proprietary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/|/pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tɹi/    /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.əˌtɛɹ.i/|/pɹəˈpɹɑɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/|/pɹəˈpɹɑɪ.ə.tɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A proprietor or owner.
    — Wherefore what issue soever shall result from my mind , by his means most happily married to a retired life , must , of due , redound to his honour , as the sole proprietary of my pains during my present condition
  2. A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
  3. The rights of a proprietor.
  4. A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
  5. A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
    — For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to property or ownership.
    — proprietary rights
  2. Owning something; having ownership.
    — the proprietary class
  3. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
    — The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
  4. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
    — a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure
  5. Privately owned.
    — a proprietary lake;   a proprietary chapel
  6. Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

词形变化

more proprietary comparative most proprietary superlative proprietaries plural

词源

词源 1
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
词源 2
From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).
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