Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no owner: as, ownerless dogs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without an owner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having no
owner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no owner
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Otherwise we have what I call the ownerless corporation that floats out there in a vacuum unaccountable to anybody save the markets through failure leading to either a bailout or a takeover.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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"Otherwise we have what I call the ownerless corporation that floats out there in a vacuum unaccountable to anybody save the markets through failure leading to either a bailout or a takeover.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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"Otherwise we have what I call the ownerless corporation that floats out there in a vacuum unaccountable to anybody save the markets through failure leading to either a bailout or a takeover.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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Hermann Goering gave the ERR the responsibility for the confiscation of "ownerless" Jewish art collections.
Stolen Art Identified Hels 2009
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Hermann Goering gave the ERR the responsibility for the confiscation of "ownerless" Jewish art collections.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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In a flash a domestic dog, which may or may not have been 'ownerless', ambushed the group.
Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010
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The '' ownerless '' [72] epistle of the Church of Constantinople to Martyrios of Antioch which contains Canon VII of the Second Ecumenical Council exactly, '' which one parenthesis, '' [73] does not refer to the Church's generally prevailing procedure, but rather '' cites the Constantinopolitan custom. ''
orrologion 2009
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Men cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box.
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As creations become digital they tend to become shared, ownerless goods.
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The code hits back at Myners's accusation that the lack of action by investors led to the creation of "ownerless corporations" but is largely based on an existing set of guidelines used by the Institutional Shareholders Committee, which unites all the main investor bodies in the UK.
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