Ownership
['əʊnəʃɪp] or ['onɚʃɪp]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Editor: Nancy
Examples
- Concurrently with this change of ownership there was going on a great improvement in agriculture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have not yet been worked, the government keeping them back for public ownership. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For if ownership is a human need, we certainly cannot taboo it as the extreme communists so dogmatically urge. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Within these limits there is to be much free private ownership and unrestricted personal freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hunter, on recovering from his stupor, was also quite positive as to the ownership of the cravat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The eighteenth century in Europe, and more particularly in Great Britain and Poland, was the age of private ownership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I refer to those applications of power to agriculture which will inevitably divorce the farmer from the ownership of his tools. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The spirit of the pioneer does not survive forever: it is kept alive to-day, I believe, by certain unnatural irritants which may be summed up as absentee ownership. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It has since been continued under his general direction and ownership, and he has made a great many additional inventions tending to improve the machine in all its parts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You hear it said that without the private ownership of capital people will lose ambition and sink into sloth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our history shows an increasing impulse to revolt against rulers and against ownership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Society, therefore, is from its beginnings the mitigation of ownership. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was collective ownership of capital a feasible scheme? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ownership in the beast and in the primitive savage was far more intense a thing than it is in the civilized world to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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