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ownership

noun

Definition of ownership

as in control

the state or fact of owning something Home ownership is on the rise in this country. The café is now under new ownership.

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Recent Examples of ownership Negotiations with the Lakers ceased when Leonard’s uncle, Dennis Robertson, requested a house, the use of private aircraft, guaranteed off-court earnings and an ownership stake in the team, according to Dan Woike of the Athletic. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 The timing shook out nicely, considering Berg would go on to be tapped to succeed Don Garber as MLS’ next commissioner and has subsequently been tasked with unloading his sizable ownership stake in LAFC. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Travis didn’t take a linear path to ownership of a startup baseball team. — Chris Placek, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 Thailand has one of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in Southeast Asia and has had several mass shootings in recent years, prompting calls for stricter firearm controls. — Connor Greene, Time, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ownership

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Noun

Not necessarily having control of it, but understanding what Kanan did and how this was going to come back to him.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
On June 12, Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with Commerce Department export controls.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of control

Noun

Strong governance, transparency, and meticulous record-keeping are crucial for maintaining tax-exempt status and ensuring the collection's long-term stewardship.

— Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
More to Explore Another example of such non-state record keeping and memorialization is the Bosnian Book of the Dead, a database listing the names of over 95,000 victims of the 1992–1995 conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of keeping

Noun

Those colours, as worn by Newton Heath — the club formed in 1878 who became Manchester United in 1902 — would become a symbol of the fight against the Glazers’ proprietorship.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
The New York Times described its methodology for producing the list, which started with selecting the criteria against which stores would be judged, including inventory, curation, proprietorship, customer service, ambience, location and payoff.

— Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025

Definition of proprietorship

Noun

Mayor Shiro Suzuki said that while some countries argue the possession of nuclear weapons helps deter potential attackers, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had demonstrated that humans can cross the line.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
His co-conspirator, San Francisco resident Micah-Luc Almeida, 47, was sentenced to three years in federal prison after being charged with possession with intent to distribute MDA.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of possession

Noun

His brand shone as a symbol of national pride and soft power.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Damianos also hailed the entry of French investment company Meridiam as a backer to the Great Seas Interconnector project, an electricity cable that will connect Europe’s power grid with that of Cyprus and eventually Israel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

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