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collective ownership

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noun

  1. ownership by a group for the benefit of members of that group

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Volunteers help care for animals, support mentorship programs and assist with riding events, creating shared spaces where culture, care and collective ownership thrive.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2025

Obviously, there were some very specific dynamics that were happening here, but they are very curious now about DAOs, about collective ownership, and all the different things that we explored with this organization.

From The Verge Dec. 7, 2021

The company is part of a small but growing movement towards platform cooperativism, which offers collective ownership as an ethical and viable alternative to Big Tech.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2020

Nearly every utopia in these books begins with a determination to create a new economy, usually through some amalgam of collective ownership, central planning, and voluntary labor.

From The New Yorker Sep. 26, 2016

It has preached collective ownership and collective control, and it has only begun to recognize that this implies the necessity of a collective will and new means and methods altogether for the collective mind.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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