Definition of Ownership

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Definition of Ownership
	Ownership The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship. Related Definitions: An, Being, Claim, Exclusive, Just, Legal, Of, Or, Own, Owner, Possession, Proprietorship, Right, State, The, Title, To

Ownership Quotations

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
George Steinbrenner

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Ownership Translations

ownership in Danish is ejendom
ownership in Dutch is eigendom, eigendomsrecht
ownership in German is Eigentumsrecht, Eigentum
ownership in Hungarian is tulajdonjog, tulajdon
ownership in Portuguese is posse
ownership in Spanish is propiedad

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