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ownership

/ˈəʊnəˌʃɪp/

noun

legal right to have something belong to you

  • “Management of a company is different from ownership of a company.”Tatoeba
  • “They disputed the ownership of the land for years.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))

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