Proprietary

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The word proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property.

Terms relating to Proprietary include:

• Proprietary chapel
• Proprietary church
• Proprietary colleges
• Proprietary colony
• Proprietary company
• Proprietary trading
• Proprietary hardware
• Proprietary software
• Proprietary protocol

Other terms including the word Proprietary include:

• Proprietary format
• Proprietary lock-in

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.