owner + -ship
ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)
- The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:Other evidence of former ownerships such as notice-boards, number plates, and makers' plates, are often discovered unexpectedly. […] It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:In the summer, DCC [Devon County Council] transferred ownership of the northern part of the station to NR for a nominal £1, enabling it (and the platform) to become part of the rail network.
- (business) Responsibility for something.
- The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.
legal status
- Arabic: مُلْكِيَّة f (mulkiyya)
- Gulf Arabic: ملكية f (mulkīya)
- Asturian: propiedá f
- Belarusian: улада́нне n (uladánnje), улада́ньне n (uladánʹnje) (Taraškievica), вало́данне n (valódannje), вало́даньне n (valódanʹnje) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: মালিকানা (bn) (malikana)
- Bulgarian: владе́ние (bg) n (vladénie), притежание (bg) n (pritežanie)
- Catalan: propietat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 所有權／所有权 (zh) (suǒyǒuquán)
- Czech: vlastnictví (cs) n
- Dutch: eigendom (nl) m
- Finnish: omistus (fi), omistaminen (fi)
- French: propriété (fr) f
- Galician: propiedade (gl) f
- Georgian: საკუთრება (saḳutreba), ფლობა (ploba), მფლობელობა (mplobeloba), მესაკუთრეობა (mesaḳutreoba)
- German: Eigentum (de) n
- Hindi: मल्कियत f (malkiyat), स्वामित्व (hi) m (svāmitva)
- Hungarian: tulajdonjog (hu)
- Irish: dílseacht f, úinéireacht f
- Italian: proprietà (it) f, padronanza (it)
- Japanese: 所有権 (ja) (しょゆうけん, shoyūken)
- Korean: 소유권(所有權) (soyugwon)
- Latin: dominium (la) n, proprietas (la) f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Egendom n
- Macedonian: владеење n (vladeenje)
- Malayalam: ഉടമസ്ഥത (uṭamasthata)
- Maori: rangatiratanga (mi)
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk: eigarskap m or n
- Old English: āgenung f
- Polish: własność (pl), posiadanie (pl)
- Portuguese: propriedade (pt) f
- Romanian: proprietate (ro) f, proprietăți f pl
- Russian: владе́ние (ru) n (vladénije), со́бственность (ru) f (sóbstvennostʹ) (property), пра́во со́бственности n (právo sóbstvennosti)
- Serbo-Croatian: vlasništvo (sh) n
- Slovak: vlastnenie n
- Slovene: lastništvo n
- Spanish: propiedad (es) f
- Swahili: umilikaji
- Swedish: ägande (sv), ägarskap
- Tagalog: pagmamay-ari
- Telugu: స్వామ్యం (svāmyaṁ)
- Turkish: sahiplik (tr), iyelik (tr), malik (tr)
- Ukrainian: володі́ння n (volodínnja)
- Welsh: perchnogaeth f
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responsibility for something
