different between property vs proprietary

English

Alternative forms

• propretie

Etymology

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
• Hyphenation: prop?erty

Noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

1. Something that is owned.
3. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

   Synonyms: land, parcel

4. Real estate; the business of selling houses.

5. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
6. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
7. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
8. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.

9. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

   Synonym: prop

10. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.

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Synonyms

• (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
• (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic

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Verb

property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

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2. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
   • 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362

     Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:

     I am too high-born to be propertied,

     To be a secondary at control,

     Or useful serving-man and instrument,

     To any sovereign state throughout the world.

References

• property at OneLook Dictionary Search
• property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietarius. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???p?a?.?.t?.?i/, /p???p?a?.?.t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???p?a?.?.t?.?i/

Adjective

proprietary (comparative more proprietary, superlative most proprietary)

1. Of or relating to property or ownership.

2. Owning something; having ownership.

3. Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
4. Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

5. Privately owned.

6. (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

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Noun

proprietary (plural proprietaries)

1. A proprietor or owner.
   • 1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience

     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. (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
   • 1975, Victor Marchetti, ?John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (page 159)

     For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters.

   • 2013, Joseph Goulden, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English (page 175)

     The “operating proprietaries” actually do business as private firms. They are incorporated where they are officed, they file the applicable state and federal tax returns, and they obtain the licenses necessary to a legitimate business operation.

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