0 the fact that you own something: --
2 the state or fact of owning something: --
take/acquire/retain ownership of sth Earlier this year the group took 51% ownership of the financial services unit.
share/stock ownership The organization promotes wider share ownership.
home/property ownership The spiralling cost of housing has pushed home ownership beyond the reach of many people.
under sb's ownership The business has been under the same ownership for 44 years.
3 the fact of taking responsibility for an idea or problem: --
We need someone to take ownership of the issue.
These trend rates are applied to special tabulations from official household projections to provide rates of ownership by household type up to 2011.
One factor behind this change has been a dramatic increase in car ownership.
This proscribes competition for "ownership" of the patient and demands an egalitarian sharing of expertise, including the expertise of ethical thinking.
Collective ownership would also be a means of creating a more communal and egalitarian basis of land access.
Moreover, one may attempt to explain changes in the legal ownership structure in terms of the interest of an economically dominant class.
The resulting growth with greater equity should also someday result in greater mass participation in industrial capital ownership through funds representing the economically enfranchised masses.
The economic issues relevant to this election seem to have more to do with ownership patterns and the emergence of new firms than with income.
It is only with the transition to corporate capitalism that we see a full separation of management and ownership.
