ownership
The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
Other meanings
Responsibility for or control over something.
“The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.”
Related words
- antiownership
- interownership
- nonownership
- absentee ownership
- co-ownership
- community ownership
- holiday ownership
- multi-ownership
- ownership equity
- public ownership
- state ownership
- cross-ownership
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Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ownership” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.