private ownership
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandownership
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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ownership
noun[U]
uk/ˈəʊ.nə.ʃɪp/us/ˈoʊ.nɚ.ʃɪp/
the fact that you ...
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(Definition ofprivateandownershipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As a result of this complicated history, there were three types ofprivateownershipof lighthouses.
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Boreholes were increasingly recognised as personal property through that decade, and theprivateownershipof the adjacent grazing lands quickly followed.
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Firstly, it clearly fostered the sale of common lands by issuing legislation which favoured the establishment ofprivateownershiprights.
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The ban onprivateownershipand low incomes were not germane to the growth of philanthropy and welfare markets.
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The introductory pages rightly stress that many of the sites described are inprivateownershipand that access cannot be guaranteed to any site.
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It wins popularity by advocating reforms in land tenure,privateownershipand entitlement to land, which is still state owned.
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This is whereprivateownershipof property and public determination of value are fatally at odds.
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Policies that encourageprivateownershipof cleared land do not necessarily increase revenue efficiency.
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Privateownershipof forestlands continued for some period even after independence.
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The encumbrance ofprivateownership: are we facing a 'tragedy of the anti-commons'?
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Perhaps communism in its truest sense, where there is noprivateownershipof property, would best reflect the concept.
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After all, this is a fishery that is characterized byprivateownershipand competitive markets, and so might be expected to achieve efficiency automatically.
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The private interests of the lighthouse proprietors could then be contrasted with the broader public interest whichprivateownershipwas said to damage.
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In addition, a definition based solely onprivateownershipwill include those formerly state-owned enterprises that have been privatized.
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Conservatives supported such ideas by proposals to reduce taxation, maintain the value of savings, encourageprivateownershipand remove threats to the insurance industry.
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This is not just a matter of recalcitrant media underprivateownership.
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Privateownershipcould persist and inequalities would subsist, but man, and especially woman, would be free to fulfil their natures.
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