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▸ noun:  Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
▸ noun:  Something that is owned.
▸ noun:  Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
▸ noun:  A territory under the rule of another country.
▸ noun:  The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
▸ noun:  The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
▸ noun:  (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
▸ noun:  (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To invest with property.

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