Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or fact of being an owner.
- noun A group that owns something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an owner; the right by which a thing belongs specifically to some person or body; proprietorship; possession as an owner or proprietor. See
owner .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of having complete
legal control of the status of something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
- noun the state or fact of being an owner
- noun the act of having and controlling property
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some sort of certainty in ownership is needed as the free agency period approaches.
AP: Glendale, Ariz., Ice Edge near arena lease deal for Coyotes 2010
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Their ownership is evidenced by actual paper shares, and is portable, such that they retain ownership anywhere they live, even overseas.
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Their ownership is evidenced by actual paper shares, and is portable, such that they retain ownership anywhere they live, even overseas.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More “Government Coersion = Freedom” Arguments 2005
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The term ownership goes beyond numbers in this case.
Inc.com 2010
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Bush's solution: turn over inefficient government programs to private industry, creating "ownership" - a code word for privatization.
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The republican way of thinking which they call the ownership society, but is really rabid unregulated captialism of the sort that privatizes everything, makes us even more vulnerable to the situation of our neighbors, not less:
A True Fable: Ownership Society Failure Hits Home, Park and Street Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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What administration argues is that what they call ownership and increasing opportunity.
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This administration promotes what I call the ownership society.
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NOVAK: And he'll lay out what he calls the ownership society, where you talk about ordinary Americans being able to invest in Social Security, private accounts, so they have a stake in the market.
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Among major reasons, the Navin Jindal-led firm said that there was a title ownership issue due to existing transactions with a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company.
bilby commented on the word ownership
"Moving forwards, we as Virgin Trains are looking to take ownership of the flow in question to apply our pricing structure, thus resulting in this journey search appearing in the new category-matrix format. The pricing of this particular flow is an issue going back to 1996 and it is not something that we can change until 2008 at the earliest. I hope this makes the situation clear."
- Virgin Trains.
July 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ownership
Crystal.
July 9, 2008
dontcry commented on the word ownership
I think I'm on the right track now. Thanks.
July 9, 2008