ownership.html - n.
1 a person who owns something.
2 sl. the captain of a ship.

owner-occupier a person who owns the house etc. he or she lives in.

ownerless adj. ownership n.

ownership.html - n.
1 a person who owns something.
2 sl. the captain of a ship.

owner-occupier a person who owns the house etc. he or she lives in.

ownerless adj. ownership n.

ownership.html - See: COME INTO ONE'S OWN, DOSE OF ONE'S OWN MEDICINE, HOLD ONE'S OWN, IN A WORLD OF ONE'S OWN, KEEP ONE'S OWN COUNSEL, OF ONE'S OWN ACCORD or OF ONE'S OWN FREE WILL, ON ONE'S OWN ACCOUNT or ON ONE'S OWN HOOK, ON ONE'S OWN TIME, SIGN ONE'S OWN DEATH WARRANT, TAKE THE LAW INTO ONE'S OWN HANDS, UNDER ONE'S OWN STEAM.

ownership.html - {v.}, {informal} To take the blame; admit your guilt; confess. * /When Mr. Jones asked who broke the window, Johnny owned up./ * /Mary owned up to having borrowed her sister's sweater./ * /When Mother saw that someone had broken the vase, Billy owned up to it./ See: COME CLEAN.

ownership.html - adj. & v.
--adj.

(prec. by possessive)
1 a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my own eyes). b individual, peculiar, particular (a charm all of its own).
2 used to emphasize identity rather than possession (cooks his own meals).
3 (absol.) a private property (is it your own?). b kindred (among my own).

--v.

1 tr. have as property; possess.
2 a tr. confess; admit as valid, true, etc. (own their faults; owns he did not know). b intr. (foll. by to) confess to (owned to a prejudice).
3 tr. acknowledge paternity, authorship, or possession of.

come into one's own 1 receive one's due.
2 achieve recognition. get one's own back (often foll. by on) colloq. get revenge. hold one's own maintain one's position; not be defeated or lose strength. of one's own belonging to oneself alone. on one's own 1 alone.
2 independently, without help. own brand (often attrib.) goods manufactured specially for a retailer and bearing the retailer's name. own goal 1 a goal scored (usu. by mistake) against the scorer's own side.
2 an act or initiative that has the unintended effect of harming one's own interests. own up (often foll. by to) confess frankly.

-owned adj. (in comb.). [OE agen, agnian: see OWE]

ownership.html - n.
1 a person who owns something.
2 sl. the captain of a ship.

owner-occupier a person who owns the house etc. he or she lives in.

ownerless adj. ownership n.