private possession
noun[U]
ukusthesituationin which someoneownssomething fortheirown use,ratherthan agovernmentororganizationowningsomething:
Goldbullionbarsarerarelyinprivatepossession.
Examplesofprivate possession
private possession
Some subsidiary components of this rule may permitprivatepossessionof obscene materials at one's home.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Around fifty of her plaster models and maquettes are in theprivatepossessionof her niece.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The site is inprivatepossessionbut it is a grove of national significance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cemetery is now inprivatepossessionwith the stipulation that it is cared for.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The major portion of the land that constitutes the ancient city is inprivatepossessionhindering archaeological study.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Only a tiny handful of serious work existed using business records which had found their way into museums, county record offices or theprivatepossessionof collectors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Economically he sees no harm whatever in theprivatepossessionof what the individual produces by his own labor, but only so much and no more.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Privatepossessionof the film remains legal.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nowadays it's again inprivatepossession.
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- bedclothes
- bedded
- bedder
- bedding
- bedding plant
- bedding-plant
- bed down
- bed-down
- be dead in the water
- be-dead-in-the-water
- be dead meat
- be-dead-meat
- be-dead-on-feet
- be dead on your feet
- be-dead-on-your-feet
- be-dead-set-against
- be (dead) set against something
- be (dead) set against sth
- be-dead-set-against-sth
- be dead to the world
- be-dead-to-the-world
- bedeck
- bedecked
- bedecking
- be-demonstrative-of