mindmap root((PROP/PROPRI)) proprietary 1、 Relating to an owner or proprietor; made or sold by one who has the sole right to do so.
2、 Privately owned and run as a profit-making organization.
🌱The local hospital was a not-for-profit institution, whereas the nearby nursing homes were proprietary. 🌳A proprietary process is a manufacturing process that others are forbidden to use, and a proprietary trademark is a name that only the owner can use. Legal rights of this kind are ensured by copyrights and patents. After a certain period of time, inventions and processes lose their legal protection, cease to be proprietary, and enter the "public domain," meaning that everyone can use them freely. Baseball fans often take a proprietary attitude toward their favorite team—that is, they behave more or less as if they own it, even though the only thing they may own is the right to yell from a bleacher seat till the end of a game. propriety 1、 The state of being proper; appropriateness.
2、 Acting according to what is socially acceptable, especially in conduct between the sexes.
🌱Propriety used to forbid a young unmarried man and woman to go almost anywhere without an adult. 🌳In an earlier era, when social manners were far more elaborate than they are today, propriety and impropriety were words in constant use. Today we're more likely to use them in other contexts. We may talk about the propriety of government officials' dealings with private citizens, the propriety of the relationship between a lawyer and a judge, or the impropriety of speaking out of turn in a meeting that follows Robert's rules of order. Relations between men and women still present questions of propriety, but today it's often in the workplace rather than in social settings. Wherever rules, principles, and standard procedures have been clearly stated, propriety can become an issue. Something improper usually isn't actually illegal, but it makes people uncomfortable by giving the impression that something isn't quite right. appropriate 1、 To take exclusive possession of, often without right.
2、 To set apart for a particular purpose or use.
🌱It was one of those insulting words that sometimes get appropriated by a group that it's meant to insult, which then starts using it proudly and defiantly. 🌳From its roots, the verb appropriate would mean basically "make one's own"—that is, "take," or sometimes "grab." Each year the President and Congress create a budget and appropriate funds for each item in it, funds which mostly come in the form of taxes from the public. In the House of Representatives, the powerful AppropriationsCommittee often gets the last word on how much money goes to each program. "Misappropriation of funds," on the other hand, is a nice way of saying "theft." If someone appropriated pieces of your novel, you might take him or her to court; and if you appropriated trade secrets from your former employers, you might be the one sued. expropriate 1、 To take away the right of possession or ownership.
2、 To transfer to oneself.
🌱It was only when the country's new government threatened to expropriate the American oil refineries that Congress became alarmed. 🌳In ancient Rome, an emperor could condemn a wealthy senator, have him killed, and expropriate his property. In 1536 Henry VIII declared himself head of the new Church of England and expropriated the lands and wealth of the Roman Catholic monasteries. And nearly all of North America was expropriated from the American Indians, usually without any payment at all. Today, democratic governments only carry out legal expropriations, in which the owners are properly paid for their land—for example, when a highway or other public project needs to be built.