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Pecuniary vs Proprietary - What's the difference?

pecuniary | proprietary |

As adjectives the difference between pecuniary and proprietary

is that pecuniary is of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial while proprietary is of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights.

As a noun proprietary is

a proprietor or owner.

pecuniary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
  • *1858 , (Anthony Trollope), (Doctor Thorne) , Chapter IV:
  • *:Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.

    • 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.
  • *
  • 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.