ownership

English

Etymology

owner +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

1. The state of having complete legal control of the status of something; possession.
2. (business) Responsibility for something.

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

Derived terms

• homeownership, home ownership

Translations

legal status

• Asturian: propiedá f
• Catalan: propietat (ca) f, possessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 所有權 (zh), 所有权 (zh) (suǒyǒuquán)

• Czech: vlastnictví (cs) n
• Finnish: omistus (fi), omistaminen (fi)
• French: possession (fr), propriété (fr)
• Galician: propiedade (gl) f
• German: Besitz (de) m
• Hindi: मल्कियत f (malkiyat), स्वामित्व (hi) m (svāmitva)
• Hungarian: tulajdonjog (hu)
• Irish: dílseacht f, úinéireacht f

• Italian: possesso (it) m, proprietà (it) f
• Japanese: 所有権 (ja) (しょゆうけん, shoyūken)
• Korean: 소유권 (soyugwon) (所有權 (ko))
• Latin: proprietas (la) f
• Polish: własność (pl), posiadanie (pl)
• Portuguese: propriedade (pt) f, possessão (pt) f
• Romanian: proprietate (ro) f, posesiune (ro) f, proprietăți f pl
• Russian: владе́ние (ru) n (vladénije), со́бственность (ru) f (sóbstvennostʹ) (property), пра́во (právo) собственности (sobstvennosti) (právo sóbstvennosti) n
• Spanish: posesión (es) f, propiedad (es) f
• Swedish: ägande (sv), ägarskap
• Telugu: స్వామ్యం (svāmyaṃ) (swaamyam)
• Turkish: sahiplik (tr), iyelik (tr), malik (tr)

Anagrams

• shipowner