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ownership

ownership

43 3.3
Taking responsibility for a task and its results
  • noun
  • /ˈoʊnərʃɪp/
  • Jargon
translation icon : responsabilidad
  • Taking ownership of your mistakes is a sign of maturity.
  • take ownership
  • sense of ownership
  • ownership and accountability

If you can take ownership of your pain in that moment.

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Examples

  • In essence, children are taking ownership of the material that they consume.

    Academic text (2013)
  • If they determine their own goals, they will become more accountable and take ownership of learning activities.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Finally, it's about ownership of our knowledge.

  • If you can take ownership of your pain in that moment.

  • So what I have to learn to do is take ownership when it's wrong.

  • Look for ways that the students can gain ownership of the place and space.

    Academic text (2008)
  • How will you get others involved and make sure they have ownership in the process?

    Academic text (2013)
  • When professionals gain control of programs, their ownership builds the commitment necessary for successful change.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I believe a sense of ownership is vital in every aspect of life, perhaps never more so than when it comes to wardrobe.

  • By sharing power, the leader creates a feeling of influence and ownership in organizational success.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

accountability
vsownership
198 6.1

Being responsible for your actions and having to explain them to other people

is an internal attitude of accepting responsibility without external enforcement

Antonyms

256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

Failing to do required duties and causing problems for others

Compounds

Workers who own shares that give them control of their company

1 4.3

A program that lets employees buy or get shares in their company to become part owners

How Responsible

ownership
  • Jargon
43 3.3
reluctance
68 3.6

Surface Forms

ownership singular
ownerships plural

Morphology

ownership = owner (semi-transparent) = own + er + ship

Formed from 'owner' + '-ship', but the sense 'taking responsibility' is a metaphorical extension from possession and may not be directly inferable by all learners.

Etymology

The word ownership also uses own ('to have') and -ship ('state' or 'quality'), like in friendship, and a helpful way to remember the second meaning is to think of making a task 'yours'. So when someone 'takes ownership' they make the job 'theirs' and accept responsibility for it.