sole ownership

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandownership

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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ownership
noun[U]
uk
/ˈəʊ.nə.ʃɪp/us
/ˈoʊ.nɚ.ʃɪp/
the fact that you ...
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(Definition ofsoleandownershipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsole ownership

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The inference is that management of this resource more closely resembles open access thansoleownership.
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This being so, my property model requires to justify thesoleownershipof the foetus by the pregnant woman without reference either to genetic contribution or to labour.
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But issoleownershipreally necessary for investment purposes, for the provision of the physical facilities?
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It is the determination to bring under national ownership, undersoleownership, all the major ports in this country.
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As far as those private lines are concerned which exist in thesoleownershipof private persons, the regulations will not appertain at all.
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Will notsoleownershipof our ports render the risk of that sort of contagion yet greater?
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It is a pity that they are excluded by the requirement for asoleownershipor tenancy.
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It is restricted to aircraft that are in thesoleownershipof the pilot receiving the coaching and cannot be conducted in aircraft that are group owned.
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He obtainedsoleownershipof the newspaper within a few years, possibly as early as 1837.
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Gonzales then began a website-based project where he recorded songs for paying customers and gave themsoleownership.
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He assumedsoleownershipof the company in 1843.
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By 1780, he had again recoveredsoleownershipof the publication, though he had by then largely retired from his public situation as a bookseller.
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The wife asked the husband to transfer the house into hersoleownership.
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Soleownershipby foreign investors also became legal, but the feasibility of such undertakings remained questionable.
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She could divorce her husband (upon which all possessions belonging to her including the dowry were reverted to hersoleownership), and sue in court.
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In 1856, he assumedsoleownershipof the enterprise.
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The trustees had insisted on hissoleownershipas a condition for taking the trust money.
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Taxes on salt and minerals were mandatory although the empire did not claimsoleownershipof mines, implying that private mineral prospecting and the quarrying business may have been active.
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Bonar retainedsoleownershipof the supplement's copyright.
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Taxes on salt and minerals were mandatory, although the empire did not claimsoleownershipof mines, implying that private mineral prospecting and the quarrying business may have been active.
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