ownership

English

Etymology

owner +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊnəʃɪp/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: own‧er‧ship

Noun

ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
- 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.

Derived terms

cross-ownership
homeownership, home 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)
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)
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
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