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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ownership
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
proof of ownership
▪ Take photos of anything unusual you own as proof of ownership.
public ownership
▪ The Opposition intends to bring the industry back into public ownership.
share ownership
▪ The government tried to encourage wider share ownership.
sole ownership/proprietorship
▪ He now has sole ownership of the company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
▪ Sometimes these resulted in contravention of an Authority rule about foreign ownership or conflict of interest, and further sales followed.
▪ He is prevented from owning more because of both foreign ownership and cross-media ownership limits.
▪ The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 percent.
▪ Less stringent foreign ownership limits would increase the float options available.
▪ It allowed full foreign ownership of enterprises, capital protection, and repatriation of profits.
▪ One of his main bugbears is the foreign ownership of technology.
▪ The opposition has given mixed signals on foreign ownership.
full
▪ It allowed full foreign ownership of enterprises, capital protection, and repatriation of profits.
▪ In taking full ownership of its triumphs, your organization puts itself in the position to repeat them.
▪ Now, Heidt and her husband, William, want the trustees to sign over full ownership.
legal
▪ The result was that in these cases the separation between legal and equitable ownership ceased.
▪ Your solicitor's main job will be conveyancing - the legal transfer of ownership of your new home.
▪ Thus, while legal ownership was permitted and protected by the law, it was subject to an overall social orientation.
▪ The Board assumed legal ownership of all rolling stock, track, depôts and other assets on 1 July.
private
▪ In most developing countries, private ownership is already the rule.
▪ The market-based economies and private ownership in Western democracies make an essential difference in the scope and application of the centralization concepts.
▪ The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital.
▪ The main characteristics of capitalism are private ownership of capital and freedom of enterprise.
▪ They shared Chamberlain's passion for efficiency but, unlike him, were in principle opposed to private ownership of the economy.
▪ And yet private ownership is basic to freedom.
▪ It is not enough simply to suggest justifications for the existence of private ownership.
▪ Black economic empowerment should be uplifting for blacks in business, in private ownership and so on.
public
▪ In theory, both are as one in opposing water passing from public ownership and control.
▪ Between 1979 and 1986, 1, 060, 085 houses were transferred from public to private ownership.
▪ Debates over important issues, from nuclear weapons to public ownership, have been settled by manipulation rather than persuasion.
▪ In fact, the Globe favored public ownership but believed in fair play for the private interests.
▪ Without a significant amount of public ownership therefore, a liberal market system gives companies independence.
▪ Mr Prescott's demand for the tunnel to be taken into public ownership goes beyond existing Labour Party policy.
▪ The Government plans to sell 51 % initially, with 46 % staying in public ownership.
▪ There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership.
shared
▪ Of the 14 flats on offer, seven will be on a shared ownership basis and seven will be for rent.
▪ The remaining six properties will be houses, three of which will be shared ownership and three will be rented.
▪ These may include multiple or shared house ownership, a hitherto under- researched issue.
▪ We've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership.
▪ We will put more of the Housing Corporation's £2,000 million budget into Do-It-Yourself shared ownership.
wide
▪ But, in its usual sense, wider share ownership does not.
▪ Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.
▪ These institutions represent the wide ownership of shares, held in trust for millions of people.
▪ With the new jobs has come wider ownership.
▪ Pension funds represent the wide ownership of shares.
■ NOUN
car
▪ Track days are big business, and the circuits are keen to cash in on this growing area of classic car ownership.
▪ These changes, together with a greater mobility in the workforce made possible by an expansion of car ownership, created a vacuum.
▪ For example, car ownership is frequently used as an indicator of affluence.
▪ Is he happy with the fact that one of the deprivation factors that he has used relates to car ownership?
▪ Problems of comparability: examples. 1. Car ownership per 100 of population.
▪ It would be perfectly reasonable for the police to check their address and details such as car ownership on the computer.
▪ This distorts the car ownership per 100 of the population to a low level compared with other countries. 2.
▪ He has found that countries with high car ownership have high levels of blood and lymphatic system cancers.
gun
▪ But the passage of such legislation did not lead to significant changes in gun ownership.
▪ The disabled could be shut out of gun ownership because of difficulty passing a proficiency test.
▪ But some recent research about the effects on crime of gun ownership ought to play a part in informing society's decisions.
▪ It is reasonable to expect gun ownership to increase in the more conservative communities in the Bay Area.
▪ Some academics have spent years squirrelling around for proxies for gun ownership in given geographical areas.
▪ To assume that gun shows and gun ownership are highly correlated is no great leap of logic.
▪ But then again, the logical link between gun ownership and the sales of gun magazines can hardly be called tenuous.
home
▪ The mortgage interest deduction promotes home ownership.
▪ Far from bringing an end to worry, home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home.
▪ Forbes would eliminate all loopholes, including the popular mortgage interest deduction aimed at encouraging home ownership.
▪ Furthermore, home ownership is a key way in which people obtain such security.
▪ The home ownership rate among women continues to lag, Cisneros said at a news conference.
▪ Nor, critics pointed out, did it give blacks automatic access to home ownership in previously white areas.
▪ Because the tax break for mortgage interest would disappear, the finances of home ownership would change.
land
▪ Despite a cut back on subsidies, existing land ownership laws still encourage clearance for ranches.
▪ Other issues dealt with land ownership.
▪ Practical issues of land ownership and land assembly would be significant constraints.
▪ In California the problem of large-scale land ownership, public and private, was especially pronounced.
▪ The question of land ownership and development also became somewhat complex.
▪ On the crucial issue of land ownership, the many agrarian laws passed in various States have been ineffective in practice.
▪ Poverty is worst in the countryside, particularly because of the inequalities in land ownership.
▪ It would be very easy to become starry-eyed and idealistic about the land ownership study.
property
▪ Indeed, one of the justifications of private property takes as its premise the idea that property ownership confers power.
▪ To be realistic, government regula-tions that impose limits on media property ownership inevitably affect media content.
▪ This allows an assessment of the influence of property ownership on the development of the Victorian and Edwardian city.
▪ Corruption is rife and bureaucracy can be a nightmare, Western executives say. Property ownership rules are muddled.
▪ Thus, the crucial division between classes is based on property ownership or non-ownership of the means of production.
▪ The law prohibited them from the benefits of free enterprise, of property ownership, or credit.
▪ Limitation on employment, property ownership and the right to vote were a surefire recipe for disaster in Northern Ireland.
▪ I would also be invited to participate in a discussion on the bountiful attractions of timeshare property ownership.
share
▪ That aim must be linked to industrial democracy, profit-sharing and share ownership.
▪ The project also studies the incidence of profit sharing and employee share ownership across the economy.
▪ But, in its usual sense, wider share ownership does not.
▪ Warsaw wrestles with tricky task of selling share ownership to the workers.
▪ The table below shows the decline in personal share ownership between 1963 and 1981.
▪ Secondary school pupils may also see teaching material from ProShare, an organisation that promotes share ownership.
▪ Supporters argue that privatisation increases efficiency, widens share ownership and increases consumer choice.
▪ The Conservative government has set out to achieve this by selling council houses and also by attempting to widen share ownership.
state
▪ The remaining 70 percent would be held in a state ownership fund for foreign investors.
▪ He opposed state ownership of the post office and the mint.
▪ Neither the private ownership funds nor the state ownership fund were yet functioning.
▪ We first provide a positive rationale for considering state ownership, by examining its advantages.
▪ Let us start with the case that probably involves the heaviest hand on the controls, that is, state ownership.
■ VERB
based
▪ Thus, the crucial division between classes is based on property ownership or non-ownership of the means of production.
▪ Under feudalism, Marxists argue, the dominant mode of production was based on the ownership of land.
▪ Marx distinguished two classes, bourgeois and proletarian, based on the ownership of the means of production.
▪ A property rights theory A credible justification of corporate enterprise in terms of rights must, therefore, be based on rights of ownership.
change
▪ Remember that when a rabbit comes through your boundary fence on to your land it automatically changes ownership.
▪ She apparently stopped repaying the loan after the bank changed ownership and lost the loan documents, they said.
claim
▪ They claim that the private ownership of capital provides the key to explaining class divisions.
▪ Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
▪ Things are too urgent for that and the dynamic is too big for any group to claim ownership of it.
▪ He was employed as literary tutor to the McLeods of Dunvegan, who claimed ownership of St Kilda.
increase
▪ One reason that computer books have improved and increased is that ownership and awareness of computers has grown.
pass
▪ In theory, both are as one in opposing water passing from public ownership and control.
▪ Methods of operation of the Awe barrage since passing into private ownership have again been causing controversy this winter.
▪ Being the owner, if he sells the goods he will be able to pass on that ownership to his purchaser.
retain
▪ An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact.
▪ One may argue that the developed countries often retain the ownership of new technologies and thus control them.
▪ The supplier of credit does not retain ownership.
▪ He still retains ownership of the name and uses it for his production company.
▪ Although many have indeed left, they have often retained their ownership and the land has fallen into disuse.
▪ It will operate without financial backing from PSINet, which will retain minority ownership but not hold any seats on its board.
▪ The next five years saw the site leased out to various tenants, although Knight retained ownership.
▪ The government would retain ownership of the land but would sell logging rights and existing infrastructure.
transfer
▪ The whole purpose of the transaction is to transfer ownership in the car.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The agency was transferred from public to private ownership.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bob gave me lots of incentive through ownership interest.
▪ But they were able to do it, as their very real empowerment and ownership programs attest.
▪ Classes teach the basics of small business ownership such as accounting and customer service.
▪ Further, the plans may indicate the ownership of fences and so may help in solving problems in that connection.
▪ The advantage that it should build upon is its multiple ownership, House argues.
▪ The classic case of private property would than become not home ownership but the ownership of somebody else's home.
▪ The project also studies the incidence of profit sharing and employee share ownership across the economy.
▪ There did not seem to be a half-way house between public and private ownership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ownership

Ownership \Own"er*ship\, n. The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ownership

1580s, from owner + -ship. Ownership society (2003) was popularized by U.S. president George W. Bush.

Wiktionary
ownership

n. The state of having complete legal control of the status of something.

WordNet
ownership
  1. n. the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others

  2. the act of having and controlling property [syn: possession]

  3. the state or fact of being an owner

Wikipedia
Ownership

Ownership of property may be private, collective, or common, and the property may be of objects, land/real estate or intellectual property. Determining ownership in law involves determining who has certain rights and duties over the property. These rights and duties, sometimes called a "bundle of rights", can be separated and held by different parties.

The process and mechanics of ownership are fairly complex: one can gain, transfer, and lose ownership of property in a number of ways. To acquire property one can purchase it with money, trade it for other property, win it in a bet, receive it as a gift, inherit it, find it, receive it as damages, earn it by doing work or performing services, make it, or homestead it. One can transfer or lose ownership of property by selling it for money, exchanging it for other property, giving it as a gift, misplacing it, or having it stripped from one's ownership through legal means such as eviction, foreclosure, seizure, or taking. Ownership is self-propagating in that the owner of any property will also own the economic benefits of that property.

Ownership (psychology)

In psychology, ownership is the feeling that something is yours. Psychological ownership is distinct from legal ownership: one may feel that one's cubicle at work is theirs and no one else’s (i.e. psychological ownership), but legal ownership of the cubicle is actually conferred to the organization.

People can feel ownership about a variety of things: products, workspaces, ideas, and roles. An example of ownership is the feeling that a product that you developed is YOURS and no one else’s. At its core, ownership is about possession, stewardship, and the need to have control over something.

Ownership is distinctly related to psychological concepts such as organizational identification and organizational commitment. Organizational identification is the sense of belongingness to an organization and using the organization to define oneself. An example of organizational identification could be proudly stating for which organization you work in a casual conversation with a new acquaintance. Organizational commitment is defined as accepting the organization’s goals, exerting effort, and a desire to maintain membership. An example of organizational commitment could be deciding to stay at an organization despite receiving an attractive job offer from another organization. Psychological ownership answers the question, ‘What is mine?’ Organizational identification answers the question, ‘Who am I?’ Organizational commitment answers the question, ‘Should I stay?’

Usage examples of "ownership".

But it seems likely that such a plan of private ownership would not be tolerated under a Socialist government, for, first of all, a very large number of Socialists are opposed to such a plan, and, secondly, the political actionists who have favored it either have sacrificed thereby the principles of their party, or else by advocating the private ownership of small farms, have done so with the intention of deceiving farmers and small land owners in order to win their votes.

The shares represent an aliquot portion of the whole corporate assets, and the property right so represented arises where the corporation has its home, and is therefore within the taxing jurisdiction of the State, notwithstanding that ownership of the stock may also be a taxable subject in another State.

Referenced and cross-referenced, each of these audit trails dealt with a particular asset a car, a property, a bank account, a business -proving to any jury that real ownership, behind a thousand financial transactions and a small army of relatives, friends, and professional advisers, still lay with Mackenzie.

Two of his mobile phones are bickering moronically, disputing ownership of his grid bandwidth.

A few of the smallest were encased in cour bouilli, with enameled disks of metals sunk into the wax-boiled leather as decoration and mark of ownership of the personage for whom the chest had been originally wrought.

The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night - perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness - we meet our sleeper - the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoise, the captain of industry admits the justice of common ownership.

For example, in our business ownership dispute, Ted, who is considering accepting a cash buyout offer for his stock from his partner, Mike, may want to step out of the mediation to call his accountant and find out what the tax consequences of the proposed plan might be.

Ownership can only be fragmented, risk disaggregated only for so long.

Alabama statute which required that owners of vessels using the public waters of the enacting State be enrolled, pay fees, file statements as to ownership, etc.

There is a strip of land bordering Gyer and Dunsted that the people of both fiefs have disputed the ownership of for many years.

First, he had brought the independent port and city of Dublin beneath the sway of the Crown of Mide, then conquered for good and all the lands along his marches the ownership of which had long been disputed.

The Lady Doris Grownsnatch of Grownsnatch House once came home to find her four pet corgis walking on their hind legs, smoking gold leaf Coronas, drinking violet label Lumlian port and angrily debating the importance of a neoteric treaty with the barbarian tribes of the Barren Lands in relation, specifically, to trade variability code practices, at Guild and sub-Guild level, and, generally, to its potential affect on the Stock Exchange, vis-a-vis devaluation of red-rimmed stock ownership and level-playing-field industrial macro-reform in the northern Realms.

In 1851, a nurseryman named Benjamin Williams began a series of articles advocating orchid ownership for everyone through the use of new cultivation techniques.

Although there was no private ownership of land or buildings among the Florans, Nyk owned the right to use the Residence.

So for the good of the environment, and the bank accounts of several well-placed individuals, private ownership of vehicles was labeled un-American, elitist, racist, wasteful, phallocentric, and just plain bad.