proprietary vs publican

proprietary

noun
  • A proprietor or owner. 

  • A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage. 

  • The rights of a proprietor. 

  • A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession. 

  • A body of proprietors, taken collectively. 

adj
  • Owning something; having ownership. 

  • Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret. 

  • Of or relating to property or ownership. 

  • Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization. 

  • Privately owned. 

  • Possessive, jealous, or territorial. 

publican

noun
  • The manager or owner of a hotel. 

  • A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire. 

  • The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”). 

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