Ownership vs. Possession — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ownership and Possession
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Ownership
Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be any asset, including an object, land or real estate, intellectual property, or until the nineteenth century, human beings. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties.
Possession
The act or fact of possessing.
Ownership
The act, state, or right of possessing something
The ownership of land
The rise in car ownership
Possession
The state of being possessed
The land's possession by the town.
Ownership
The state or fact of being an owner.
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Possession
Something owned or possessed
Removed his possessions from the desk.
Ownership
A group that owns something
The ownership of the team wants to make a trade for a better pitcher.
Possession
A territory subject to foreign control.
Ownership
The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.
Possession
Power or control over something
Possession of a firearm.
Ownership
(business) Responsibility for something.
The successful candidate will take ownership of all internal design projects.
Possession
Occupation or control of a piece of property, with or without ownership.
Ownership
The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Possession
A right of occupation and use
The tenant has possession of the apartment until the end of the lease.
Ownership
The relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
Possession
The crime of possessing an illegal drug.
Ownership
The act of having and controlling property
Possession
The state of being dominated or controlled by a demon or spirit.
Ownership
The state or fact of being an owner
Possession
The state of being occupied or obsessed with something, such as an idea.
Possession
Physical control of the ball or puck by a player or team.
Possession
An instance of this
Ideally, we would score on each possession.
Possession
Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Possession
Something that is owned.
The car quickly became his most prized possession.
I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
Possession
Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
The car is in my possession.
I'm in possession of the car.
Possession
A territory under the rule of another country.
Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
Possession
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.
Possession
The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
Possession
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession.
Possession
(Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
Possession
(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable possession — my foot will always be mine.
Possession
(obsolete) To invest with property.
Possession
The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
Possession
The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
Possession
The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
Possession
The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
How long hath this possession held the man?
Possession
To invest with property.
Possession
The act of having and controlling property
Possession
Anything owned or possessed
Possession
Being controlled by passion or the supernatural
Possession
A mania restricted to one thing or idea
Possession
A territory that is controllled by a ruling state
Possession
The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
Possession
(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck);
They took possession of the ball on their own goal line
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