proprietary

adjective/prəˈpraɪəˌtɛri/

Frequency rank: #6,294 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

owned or controlled exclusively by a particular company or individual; not publicly available.

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Example sentence

The company refused to share its proprietary software with competitors.

Synonyms & related words

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