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Webster 1913 Edition

Ownership

Own′er-ship

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Noun.

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ownership

OWNERSHIP

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Noun.

Property; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title. The ownership of the estate is in A; the possession is in B.

Definition 2024

ownership

ownership

English

Noun

ownership ‎(countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

The state of having complete legal control of the status of something; possession.
(business) Responsibility for something.
The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.

Derived terms

homeownership, home ownership

Translations

legal status

Asturian: propiedá f
Catalan: propietat (ca) f, possessió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 所有權 (zh), 所有权 (zh) ‎(suǒyǒuquán)
Czech: vlastnictví (cs) n
Finnish: omistus (fi), omistaminen (fi)
French: possession (fr), propriété (fr)
Galician: propiedade (gl) f
German: Besitz (de) m
Hindi: मल्कियत f ‎(malkiyat), स्वामित्व (hi) m ‎(svāmitva)
Hungarian: tulajdonjog (hu)
Irish: dílseacht f

Italian: possesso (it) m, proprietà (it) f
Japanese: 所有権 (ja) ‎(しょゆうけん, shoyūken)
Korean: 소유권 ‎(soyugwon) (所有權 (ko))
Latin: proprietas (la) f
Polish: własność (pl), posiadanie (pl)
Portuguese: propriedade (pt)
Romanian: proprietate (ro) f, posesiune (ro) f, proprietăți f pl
Russian: владе́ние (ru) n ‎(vladénije), со́бственность (ru) f ‎(sóbstvennostʹ) (property), пра́во ‎(právo) собственности ‎(sobstvennosti) (právo sóbstvennosti) n
Spanish: posesión (es) f, propiedad (es) f
Swedish: ägande (sv), ägarskap
Telugu: స్వామ్యం ‎(svāmyaṃ) (swaamyam)
Turkish: sahiplik (tr), iyelik (tr), malik (tr)

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