单词 | non-ownership |
释义 | non-ownershipn. The fact or condition of not being an owner. ΚΠ 1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 3 Apr. 421/1 Disappointed in our failure to purchase the fruit that we wanted, we felt it to be particularly chafing to walk close beside overladen trellises, and to feel that..there was yet a wall of non-ownership..many miles high. 1908 Polit. Sci. Q. 23 534 Exercise of volitional activity and the ownership of property..subject one to uncertainty. But so also do non-ownership and inactivity. 1939 Fortune Oct. 158/3 Making a virtue of its nonownership of theatres, they called the new Universal ‘an exhibitor's company’. 1997 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 23 318 We classified housing status as home ownership or nonownership. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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