posession

Noun

possession (countable and uncountable, plural possessions)

1. A control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
   • Once complete, guide rails will be installed inside the tunnels ready for the box jack itself - which NR intends to push into place during a nine-day engineering possession in September, following a trial push in late August. [...] A small number of weekday and weekend possessions will also be...2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, page 44
2. Something that is owned.
   • The car quickly became his most prized possession.

   Synonyms:

   ight, aught, belongings, owndom, property, propriety

3. An ownership; a taking, a holding, keeping something as one's own.
   • The car is in my possession.

   Synonyms:

   owndom, retention, ownership, proprietorship, propriety

   Antonyms:

   absence

4. A territory under the rule of another country.
   • Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
5. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
   • Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession.

   Synonyms:

   enthusiasm

6. The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.

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