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proprietarity

proprietarity noun: the quality of being proprietary.

Noun

proprietarity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being proprietary.
    • The degree of product independence illuminates the extent of an action model's proprietarity.2001, Heinz-Dieter Knöll, Lukas W. H. Kühl, Roland W. A. Kühl, Robert Moreton, “View The Status Quo: Review of Life-Cycle Approaches”, in Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software...
    • We turn now to a discussion of resource fungibility and proprietarity.2014, Bob Edwards, Melinda Kane, “Resource mobilization and social and political movements”, in Hein-Anton van der Heijden, editor, Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements, Edward...
    Synonyms:
    proprietariness

Synonyms of proprietarity

Origin of proprietarity

From proprietary + -ity.

Questions about proprietarity

What does proprietarity mean?
Proprietarity means the quality of being proprietary.
What part of speech is proprietarity?
Proprietarity is a noun.

Words near proprietarity in the dictionary

  1. proprietarians
  2. proprietariat
  3. proprietaries
  4. proprietarily
  5. proprietariness
  6. proprietarity
  7. proprietary
  8. proprietary eponym
  9. proprietary eponyms
  10. proprietary trading
  11. proprietess

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