Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.

    an official document granting a right or privilege

  2. (countable, specifically, uncountable)A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.

  3. (countable, specifically, uncountable)A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.

    Patent

    пате́нтpatént

    пате́нтpatént

    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

  4. (US, countable, historical, uncountable)A specific grant of ownership of a piece of real property; a land patent.

  5. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A product in respect of which a patent (sense 1.2.2) has been obtained.

  6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A licence or (formal) permission to do something.

  7. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A characteristic or quality that one possesses; in particular (hyperbolic) as if exclusively; a monopoly.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Why don't you get it patented?

    ruПочему бы тебе не запатентовать это? — odexed

  2. Tom filed a patent for his invention.

    ruТом подал патент на своё изобретение. — marafon

  3. I filed a patent.

    Я зареєстрував патент. — aandrusiak

    ruЯ зарегистрировал патент. — diluvian

  4. Where is the Tokyo patent office?

  5. Transgender medicines are all off patent.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period:
Русский
By meaning 1
declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, ri

The noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”) [and other forms], which is either:

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Forms

plural: patents
Singularpatent
Pluralpatents

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention:patent of invention
  • an official document granting a right or privilege:letters patent

Word family

30 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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