exclusive right
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7.1
- noun
- Specialized
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derecho exclusivo
- Naturally, a publisher would negotiate for exclusive rights to eliminate any potential competitors.
- granted exclusive rights
- gave exclusive rights
- holds exclusive rights
And so I have obviously, as the person who brought this back to life, I have every right and that the exclusive right to say what happens with the seeds.
- And so I have obviously, as the person who brought this back to life, I have every right and that the exclusive right to say what happens with the seeds.
- He secured the exclusive rights to sell iPhones in Japan and then gave the phones away with cheap unlimited data plans to maximize market share.
Examples
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Life magazine is prepared to offer $250,000 for worldwide exclusive rights to serialize the Howard Hughes story.
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Currently, Mars Incorporated owns the exclusive rights to this super enticing chocolate treat.
Blog text (14) -
Nancy, they said, had given them exclusive rights to her story.
Fiction book (2001) -
Under the constitution, the Portuguese National Bank has the exclusive right to issue money.
Academic text (1991) -
When the U.S. won independence from Britain, the first article of the new constitution gave congress the exclusive right to "coin money".
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The source code for these programs is openly shared; no single person or company holds exclusive rights to open-source software programs.
Academic text (2006) -
The language of the IGRA gives the tribes the exclusive right to manage gaming on their sovereign lands.
Academic text (2012) -
Back around the time when Wade would have been released from prison, my company had acquired the exclusive rights to an experimental drug therapy for AlDS patients.
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George Eastman recognized the importance of Velox and, in 1899, paid Baekeland $750,000 for exclusive rights to the Velox paper.
Academic text (2007) -
The new author signed a contract granting her the exclusive right to publish her memoir.
Synonyms
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3.7
A special right or advantage for certain people
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8.2
A special right that only a person or group has
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'exclusive' (= limited to specific people) modifies 'right' (= an entitlement), yielding a right limited to a particular person or group. This is a transparent, literal combination and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand it.
Etymology
Exclusive right may come from the image of one person holding the only key to a door. Here, exclusive means keeping others out and right means the power to use something, so the phrase came to mean a power 'reserved to one person' that others cannot use.