Results for ownership

Definitions of ownership:

part of speech: noun

PROPRIETORSHIP.

part of speech: noun

Proprietorship; rightful or just claim or title. Note.-" To own a thing is to claim it as possessed by one's self; to owe money is an elliptical expression for having it to pay to another, or possessing it for another. A Yorkshire man says, Who owes this? meaning, who is the possessor of this? to whom does this belong?"- Wedgewood.

part of speech: noun

Right of possession; proprietorship.

Usage examples for ownership:

• So we come back to my original statement, that the evil is due to the private ownership of land. "Britain for the British", Robert Blatchford

• There is no freedom for Father except in some sort of private ownership of things like water and fire. "Eugenics and Other Evils", G. K. Chesterton

• Then both the 'Atlantic Monthly' and 'Every Saturday' were sold away from their old ownership and 'Every Saturday' was suppressed altogether, and we two ceased to be of the same employ. "Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells", William Dean Howells

• The pistol was useful in settling annoying questions of title; the horse and the lariat, in taking possession after title was settled; the iron, in marking the property with a symbol of ownership "The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier", Edgar Beecher Bronson