ownership

English

Etymology

owner +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊnəʃɪp/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: own‧er‧ship

Noun

ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

1. 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.

2. (business) Responsibility for something.

   The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.

Derived terms

• absentee ownership
• community ownership
• co-ownership
• cross-ownership
• holiday ownership
• homeownership, home ownership
• multi-ownership
• ownership equity
• public ownership
• state ownership

 

Translations

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

responsibility for something

• Dutch: verantwoordelijkheid nemen
• German: Verantwortung (de) f (with übernehmen)

Anagrams

• shipowner