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
An additional $200 million will be dedicated to capital improvements at the Red Hook Houses, and $50 million will be set aside for an affordable housing reserve fund and home ownership assistance.
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Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
This is an impressive achievement, which demonstrates that strong national ownership of difficult economic reforms, when combined with timely international support, can deliver positive results.
—Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
In these instances, customers are going to look to the leader to take responsibility and ownership of what occurred.
—John Hall, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Close every meeting with ownership.
—Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
This is an impressive achievement, which demonstrates that strong national ownership of difficult economic reforms, when combined with timely international support, can deliver positive results.
—Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
In these instances, customers are going to look to the leader to take responsibility and ownership of what occurred.
—John Hall, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Close every meeting with ownership.
—Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ownership
Noun
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There is also the underlying issue of whether a crypto investor uses a third party for custody at all, or maintains total custody and trading control over their holdings.—
Trevor Laurence Jockims,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2025
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The resolution is capped, and the controls seem slow and laggy by modern standards.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In 2024, homelessness reached the highest point in the history of HUD's record keeping, with sizable increases in total homelessness, chronic homelessness, family homelessness, and unsheltered homelessness.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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The final day of the calendar winter Wednesday was likely to bring with it a few last sprinkles of precipitation for storm-weary areas of the Bay Area before unveiling a weather pattern more keeping with the springtime.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the film, but since Craig's departure and the recent shake-up in proprietorship, no new Bond or Bond director has yet been announced.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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In 1961, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin became the first man up there, sparking an immediate bidding war with the US for proprietorship of the moon.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
8 July 2024
Noun
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Ankara hopes the new Trump administration will lift the ban by compromising over Turkey’s possession of those strategic Russian missiles.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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That weakness was on full display on consecutive defensive possessions in the first quarter on Friday.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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Because a bat has a thick barrel and rotates when swung, its motion and power depend on the distribution of weight across the entire shaft, not just in one spot.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Ownership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ownership. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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