Synonym: proprietorship. Similar words: proprietor, dietary, appropriate, appropriately, misappropriate, secretary, proletariat, the proletariat. Meaning: [prə'praɪətərɪ /-trɪ] n. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits. adj. protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights.
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31, Conversely, some 15% of users intend to completely replace their mainframes with Unix boxes, and 4% with proprietary systems.
32, The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop, which it substituted for its proprietary GUI, to shorten the learning curve.
33, An organic alternative to proprietary sprays is a strong solution of soap or washing-up liquid in warm water.
34, Most losses were the result of financial fraud and the theft of proprietary information.
35, Alternatively, pipework can be covered up, either with home-made boxing made from plywood or with one of the proprietary products.
36, We want to be the leader in cross-border opportunities, in taking customers from proprietary systems to independent standards.
37, It must be said that as a matter of civil law the existence of an equitable proprietary interest is doubtful.
38, More and more customers viewed proprietary hardware plus customized software as an undesirable life sentence for their organizations.
39, She felt a proprietary interest in these two beauties lying there in bed.
40, I learn from my medical sciences colleagues that the Science Museum has recently placed some proprietary drugs on inventory.
41, Several proprietary fertilizers, mixed and formulated specifically for roses, show a marked bias in favour of one or other element.
42, Beware of some proprietary brands - most are for preventative use and will have little effect against serious outbreaks of parasites.
43, You can buy a proprietary mix that will provide end residues that balance reasonably well - eventually.
44, Engineering is reportedly dictating the specifications and Sun could catch flak because they're using proprietary protocols.
45, InConcert is independent of other applications and requires no proprietary imaging,[http://sentencedict.com/proprietary.html] office automation or publishing software.
46, Second, the protection of proprietary rights and recovery of investments.
47, It is therefore not such property where there is only in the alleged owners a claim to a proprietary interest.
48, Pre-coating clean brander plates with a proprietary release water soluble barrier film is a cheaper alternative.
49, The employment protection legislation has created for certain employees a proprietary right in their jobs.
50, Most proprietary medications are designed not to kill filter bacteria.
51, As such it became almost as famous as the great cataract itself for which the Porter family assumed a proprietary interest.
52, His Lordship's initial impression was that the case fitted more readily into a contractual than a proprietary slot.
53, But I was willing to take greater risks than if I had felt deeply proprietary about my career.
54, Nevertheless, it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary[sentencedict.com], single-vendor systems.
55, Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house.
56, ReplayTV is more difficult to hack because it uses a proprietary operating system.
57, The proprietary system never did work well, and the colony never became a great place for refuge.
58, Without access to corporate data, says Gresham, companies are unwilling to begin the shift over from proprietary systems.
59, It is now more feasible than ever for organisations to switch from their expensive proprietary machines to lower-cost Unix computers.
60, It comes bundled with Windows 3.1, and a proprietary front-end, which uses graphics to depict the various functions provided.
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