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ownerships

ownerships is the plural of ownership.

Meaning of ownership

Noun

ownership (countable and uncountable, plural ownerships)

  1. The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
    • Other evidence of former ownerships such as notice-boards, number plates, and makers' plates, are often discovered unexpectedly. […] It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture...1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77
  2. Responsibility for or control over something.
    • The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.

Phrases with ownerships

Questions about ownerships

What is ownerships the plural of?
Ownerships is the plural of ownership.

Words near ownerships in the dictionary

  1. owners
  2. owners corporation
  3. owners corporations
  4. ownership
  5. ownership equity
  6. ownerships
  7. ownest
  8. owneth
  9. owning
  10. owning up
  11. ownings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ownerships (page history and authors); ownership (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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