Ownership and Trust

Ownership

Ownership noun - The state or fact of being an owner.

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Trust and ownership are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trust" instead a noun "Ownership".

Nearby Word: owner

Trust noun - Firm belief in the integrity, ability, effectiveness, or genuineness of someone or something.

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Ownership and trust are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ownership" instead a noun "Trust".

human	human ownership	human trust
high	high ownership	high trust
physical	physical ownership	physical trust
full	full ownership	full trust
Other adjectives: low, public, true, legal, little, social, personal, ultimate, new, former, mutual, higher.

Some New World stations, particularly from the Argyle/Citicasters deal, were being sold off and/or held in trust because of FCC ownership limits at the time which forbade duopolies or a single company owning more than 12 stations, but also because some were in AFC markets.

Source: Disaster Dominoes
Not only did the entire team cancel their contracts with the club, but the trust who managed the Odyssey Arena which the Giants played at invoked an out clause to ban the team from their arena until Knight sold his ownership of the team.

Source: Persona Non Grata
The NFL barred non-profit organizations (like Green Bay's community owned trust) from owning teams in 1960, but grandfathered Green Bay (who's ownership structure had not changed since the NFL's inception) in under the new rules.

Source: Last of His Kind

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