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proprietary
(redirected from proprietarily)

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proprietary
Private. Proprietary hardware and software are owned and controlled by a single organization or individual. Contrast with open.
proprietary
1. of, relating to, or belonging to property or proprietors
2. Med of or denoting a drug or agent manufactured and distributed under a trade name
3. Med a proprietary drug or agent
4. a proprietor or proprietors collectively
5. 
a. right to property
b. property owned
6. (in Colonial America) an owner, governor, or grantee of a proprietary colony

1.proprietary - In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers.
2.proprietary - In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to open-systems standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor who can inflate service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has locked the customer in.


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Despite of being a company of medium-range size the company with its 65 staff members produces a considerable range of fittings in three halls; they are proprietarily designed fittings for burners, ovens, boilers and power plants.
This looting took place after assurances had been given by the expedition leader, Captain Napier (later known, proprietarily, as "Lord Napier of Magdala"), to the Ethiopian church that nothing would be taken.
MHI proprietarily developed the machine and has verified its performance and reliability through testing since January this year using an actual production model built at the Kanazawa plant of MHI's Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works.
 
 
 
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