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Proprietary vs Exclusive - What's the difference?

proprietary | exclusive |

As adjectives the difference between proprietary and exclusive

is that proprietary is of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights while exclusive is excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.

As nouns the difference between proprietary and exclusive

is that proprietary is a proprietor or owner while exclusive is information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

proprietary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights .
  • Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as the proprietary class .
  • Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
    • The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.
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  • Privately owned, as a proprietary lake .
  • (of a, person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

    • Noun

    (proprietaries)
  • A proprietor or owner.
    • (Fuller)
  • A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
  • A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

    • exclusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
  • (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
    • Exclusive''' clubs tend to serve ' exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
  • exclusionary
  • whole, undivided, entire
    • ''The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.

    Antonyms

    * inclusive * non-exclusive

    Derived terms

    * exclusively * exclusiveness * exclusive or * exclusive right * exclusivity * mutually exclusive

    Related terms

    * exclusion * exclude * excludent (discrimination)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
    • ''The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially distastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature
  • (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only'', ''solely'', or ''simply .

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