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community owned

community owned adjective: of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.

Adjective

community owned (not comparable)

  1. of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.
    • For over seventy years, community owned rural telephony networks have flourished in the USA and about 1,000 exist today.

Questions about community owned

What does community owned mean?
Community owned means of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.
What part of speech is community owned?
Community owned is an adjective.

Words near community owned in the dictionary

  1. community nurses
  2. Community of Madrid
  3. community of practice
  4. community organizer
  5. community organizers
  6. community owned
  7. community ownership
  8. community payback
  9. community pharmacies
  10. community pharmacy
  11. community police officer

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