ownership

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ownership

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Etymology

From owner +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊnəʃɪp/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: own‧er‧ship

Noun

ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

1. The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

     Other evidence of former ownerships such as notice-boards, number plates, and makers' plates, are often discovered unexpectedly. […] It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.

   • 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:

     In the summer, DCC [Devon County Council] transferred ownership of the northern part of the station to NR for a nominal £1, enabling it (and the platform) to become part of the rail network.

2. (business) Responsibility for or control over something.

   The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.

Derived terms

• absentee ownership
• community ownership
• co-ownership
• cross-ownership
• holiday ownership
• homeownership, home ownership
• multi-ownership
• ownership equity
• public ownership
• state ownership

Translations

legal status — see also proprietorship

Arabic: مُلْكِيَّة f (mulkiyya) Gulf Arabic: ملكية f (mulkīya) Asturian: propiedá f Belarusian: улада́нне n (uladánnje), улада́ньне n (uladánʹnje) (Taraškievica), вало́данне n (valódannje), вало́даньне n (valódanʹnje) (Taraškievica) Bengali: মালিকানা (bn) (malikana) Bulgarian: владе́ние (bg) n (vladénie), притежание (bg) n (pritežanie) Catalan: propietat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 所有權 / 所有权 (zh) (suǒyǒuquán) Czech: vlastnictví (cs) n Dutch: eigendom (nl) m Finnish: omistus (fi), omistaminen (fi) French: propriété (fr) f Galician: propiedade (gl) f Georgian: საკუთრება (saḳutreba), ფლობა (ploba), მფლობელობა (mplobeloba), მესაკუთრეობა (mesaḳutreoba) German: Eigentum (de) n Hindi: मल्कियत f (malkiyat), स्वामित्व (hi) m (svāmitva) Hungarian: tulajdonjog (hu) Indonesian: kepemilikan (id), pemilikan (id) Irish: dílseacht f, úinéireacht f Italian: proprietà (it) f, padronanza (it) Japanese: 所有権 (ja) (しょゆうけん, shoyūken) Korean: 소유권(所有權) (ko) (soyugwon) Latin: dominium (la) n, proprietas (la) f Low German: German Low German: Egendom n Macedonian: владеење n (vladeenje) Malay: pemilikan Malayalam: ഉടമസ്ഥത (uṭamasthata) Maori: rangatiratanga (mi) Norwegian: Nynorsk: eigarskap m or n Old English: āgenung f Ottoman Turkish: صاحبلك (sahiblik), ملكیت (mülkiyet) Polish: własność (pl), posiadanie (pl) Portuguese: propriedade (pt) f Romanian: proprietate (ro) f, proprietăți f pl Russian: владе́ние (ru) n (vladénije), со́бственность (ru) f (sóbstvennostʹ) (property), пра́во со́бственности n (právo sóbstvennosti) Serbo-Croatian: vlasništvo (sh) n Slovak: vlastnenie n Slovene: lastništvo n Spanish: propiedad (es) f, tituralidad f, dueñesco m Swahili: umilikaji Swedish: ägande (sv), ägarskap Tagalog: pagmamay-ari Telugu: స్వామ్యం (svāmyaṁ) Turkish: sahiplik (tr), iyelik (tr), malik (tr) Ukrainian: володі́ння (uk) n (volodínnja) Welsh: perchnogaeth f

responsibility for something — see also responsibility

Dutch: verantwoordelijkheid nemen German: Verantwortung (de) f (with übernehmen)

Anagrams

• shipowner