Definition of proprietorial in English:

proprietorial

adjective prəˌprʌɪəˈtɔːrɪəlp(r)əˌpraɪəˈtɔriəl

Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive.
Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way
Example sentencesExamples
- The internet, the most effective means yet discovered for sharing proprietorial information, redefines the concept of copyright beyond anything the law can keep up with.
- Normally he was there on the left as you go in, on a kind of proprietorial plinth.
- Can I write your story into a film and leach you of any kind of proprietorial rights?
- They feel proprietorial, as though the Big Apple were theirs to consume.
- It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises.
- Road rage is a telling example; that's just people becoming proprietorial about something they should share.
- Certainly a lot of blogging is a form of journalism but without the commercial, editorial or proprietorial pressures.
- It has been free from proprietorial interference for nearly 10 years now.
- You can understand children of the 1960s being proprietorial about rock.
- Some quite inquisitive - and even proprietorial - individuals came close, begging for food and carefully observing us whilst we worked in the water.
- I am not proprietorial about the idea at all and I urge any of you who like the concept to do the same.
- Ministers often feel proprietorial about their departments.
- All went swimmingly at first, and I had that warm, faintly proprietorial glow that goes with introducing friends to somewhere that you feel has been your own brilliant discovery.
- One possibility is that people feel different about photos than they do with playlists and music - more proprietorial, more nervous of sharing.
- ‘Just look at these mountains,’ he says, with all the proprietorial pride of a man who feels he is monarch of all he surveys.
- This pretty particularness might seem an affectation, but he says he was like that as a kid, when to set himself apart from his brother he would claim proprietorial rights to food and TV programmes.
- Another option might be to create an editorial board with real legal safeguards against proprietorial dismissal.
- Will they allow us to continue editing and producing this paper without proprietorial interference?
- He looks what he claims to be, her friend, confidant and protector, a smiling, slightly proprietorial figure.
Synonyms
suspicious, distrustful, mistrustful, doubting, insecure, anxious

Derivatives

proprietorially

adverb

In 2000, after a decade in New York, he returned to Sydney, intending - as he proprietorially put it - to ‘make claim on the city'.
Example sentencesExamples
- It will be strange not to find him standing proprietorially amid the young revellers in the Pleasance courtyard, calling you over for a drink and bending your ear on some matter of Fringe politics.
- As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out.
- Michelle was there too, holding his arm proprietorially.
- Benny Goodman, who commissioned the work, saunters through it proprietorially.

Rhymes

accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial

Definition of proprietorial in US English:

proprietorial

adjectivep(r)əˌpraɪəˈtɔriəlp(r)əˌprīəˈtôrēəl

Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive.
Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way
Example sentencesExamples
- Will they allow us to continue editing and producing this paper without proprietorial interference?
- Some quite inquisitive - and even proprietorial - individuals came close, begging for food and carefully observing us whilst we worked in the water.
- This pretty particularness might seem an affectation, but he says he was like that as a kid, when to set himself apart from his brother he would claim proprietorial rights to food and TV programmes.
- Can I write your story into a film and leach you of any kind of proprietorial rights?
- One possibility is that people feel different about photos than they do with playlists and music - more proprietorial, more nervous of sharing.
- Road rage is a telling example; that's just people becoming proprietorial about something they should share.
- He looks what he claims to be, her friend, confidant and protector, a smiling, slightly proprietorial figure.
- Another option might be to create an editorial board with real legal safeguards against proprietorial dismissal.
- It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises.
- I am not proprietorial about the idea at all and I urge any of you who like the concept to do the same.
- The internet, the most effective means yet discovered for sharing proprietorial information, redefines the concept of copyright beyond anything the law can keep up with.
- They feel proprietorial, as though the Big Apple were theirs to consume.
- You can understand children of the 1960s being proprietorial about rock.
- All went swimmingly at first, and I had that warm, faintly proprietorial glow that goes with introducing friends to somewhere that you feel has been your own brilliant discovery.
- Ministers often feel proprietorial about their departments.
- Normally he was there on the left as you go in, on a kind of proprietorial plinth.
- It has been free from proprietorial interference for nearly 10 years now.
- ‘Just look at these mountains,’ he says, with all the proprietorial pride of a man who feels he is monarch of all he surveys.
- Certainly a lot of blogging is a form of journalism but without the commercial, editorial or proprietorial pressures.
Synonyms
suspicious, distrustful, mistrustful, doubting, insecure, anxious

单词	proprietorial
释义	Definition of proprietorial in English: proprietorial adjective prəˌprʌɪəˈtɔːrɪəlp(r)əˌpraɪəˈtɔriəl Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive. Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way Example sentencesExamples The internet, the most effective means yet discovered for sharing proprietorial information, redefines the concept of copyright beyond anything the law can keep up with. Normally he was there on the left as you go in, on a kind of proprietorial plinth. Can I write your story into a film and leach you of any kind of proprietorial rights? They feel proprietorial, as though the Big Apple were theirs to consume. It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises. Road rage is a telling example; that's just people becoming proprietorial about something they should share. Certainly a lot of blogging is a form of journalism but without the commercial, editorial or proprietorial pressures. It has been free from proprietorial interference for nearly 10 years now. You can understand children of the 1960s being proprietorial about rock. Some quite inquisitive - and even proprietorial - individuals came close, begging for food and carefully observing us whilst we worked in the water. I am not proprietorial about the idea at all and I urge any of you who like the concept to do the same. Ministers often feel proprietorial about their departments. All went swimmingly at first, and I had that warm, faintly proprietorial glow that goes with introducing friends to somewhere that you feel has been your own brilliant discovery. One possibility is that people feel different about photos than they do with playlists and music - more proprietorial, more nervous of sharing. ‘Just look at these mountains,’ he says, with all the proprietorial pride of a man who feels he is monarch of all he surveys. This pretty particularness might seem an affectation, but he says he was like that as a kid, when to set himself apart from his brother he would claim proprietorial rights to food and TV programmes. Another option might be to create an editorial board with real legal safeguards against proprietorial dismissal. Will they allow us to continue editing and producing this paper without proprietorial interference? He looks what he claims to be, her friend, confidant and protector, a smiling, slightly proprietorial figure. Synonyms suspicious, distrustful, mistrustful, doubting, insecure, anxious Derivatives proprietorially adverb In 2000, after a decade in New York, he returned to Sydney, intending - as he proprietorially put it - to ‘make claim on the city'. Example sentencesExamples It will be strange not to find him standing proprietorially amid the young revellers in the Pleasance courtyard, calling you over for a drink and bending your ear on some matter of Fringe politics. As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out. Michelle was there too, holding his arm proprietorially. Benny Goodman, who commissioned the work, saunters through it proprietorially. Rhymes accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial Definition of proprietorial in US English: proprietorial adjectivep(r)əˌpraɪəˈtɔriəlp(r)əˌprīəˈtôrēəl Behaving as if one owned a particular thing or person; possessive. Louis draped his arm across her shoulders in a proprietorial way Example sentencesExamples Will they allow us to continue editing and producing this paper without proprietorial interference? Some quite inquisitive - and even proprietorial - individuals came close, begging for food and carefully observing us whilst we worked in the water. This pretty particularness might seem an affectation, but he says he was like that as a kid, when to set himself apart from his brother he would claim proprietorial rights to food and TV programmes. Can I write your story into a film and leach you of any kind of proprietorial rights? One possibility is that people feel different about photos than they do with playlists and music - more proprietorial, more nervous of sharing. Road rage is a telling example; that's just people becoming proprietorial about something they should share. He looks what he claims to be, her friend, confidant and protector, a smiling, slightly proprietorial figure. Another option might be to create an editorial board with real legal safeguards against proprietorial dismissal. It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises. I am not proprietorial about the idea at all and I urge any of you who like the concept to do the same. The internet, the most effective means yet discovered for sharing proprietorial information, redefines the concept of copyright beyond anything the law can keep up with. They feel proprietorial, as though the Big Apple were theirs to consume. You can understand children of the 1960s being proprietorial about rock. All went swimmingly at first, and I had that warm, faintly proprietorial glow that goes with introducing friends to somewhere that you feel has been your own brilliant discovery. Ministers often feel proprietorial about their departments. Normally he was there on the left as you go in, on a kind of proprietorial plinth. It has been free from proprietorial interference for nearly 10 years now. ‘Just look at these mountains,’ he says, with all the proprietorial pride of a man who feels he is monarch of all he surveys. Certainly a lot of blogging is a form of journalism but without the commercial, editorial or proprietorial pressures. Synonyms suspicious, distrustful, mistrustful, doubting, insecure, anxious
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