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ownership|ˈəʊnəʃɪp| [f. as prec. + -ship.] The fact or state of being an owner; legal right of possession; property, proprietorship, dominion. Also attrib.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxix. 235 One that hath but onely the laying out of them, and not the ownership of them. 1652Needham tr. Selden (title) Of the Dominion, or Ownership of the Sea. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xiv. 382 Ownership or Property may be described accurately enough in the following manner: ‘the right to use or deal with some given subject in a manner, or to an extent, which, though it is not unlimited, is indefinite’. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. vi. (1876) 191 There are many advantages associated with the ownership of land. 1880Daily News 6 Nov. 5/6 If allowance for ownership votes were made, the majority of voters were with him. 1899T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class ii. 23 The practice of seizing women from the enemy as trophies, gave rise to a form of ownership-marriage. 1906Westm. Gaz. 20 June 7/1 These were the ‘ownership’ voters, which were a scandal of the franchise. The speaker knows of a case where one man had sixty-seven ownership votes. Ibid., As an instance of this plural voting by ownership, Wimbledon had 3,350 non-resident voters who owned property in the borough. 1910Ibid. 10 Jan. 2/1 What..are the advantages which are claimed for the ownership system? 1944W. Temple Church looks Forward xxii. 158 At an earlier date Ownership and Management were very closely connected. 1956H. Gaitskell in Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. (1964) 457/2 Nationalization..is generally understood to mean the taking over by the State of a complete industry so that it is owned by and managed and controlled for the Community, and public ownership..strictly speaking means the ownership by the community of any property whether individual or not, whether embracing the whole of an industry or only part of it. 1975Chinese Econ. Stud. VIII. iv. 6 The ownership pattern refers to who owns the means of production (including means of labor, such as machines, plants, land, and objects of labor, such as raw materials). |