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Land in a common field, different parts of which are held by different proprietors.
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A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
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(law) In a condominium or other cooperative residential facility, an area owned by the organization that oversees the facility, but is not owned by any specific resident.
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(Scotland) The corporate property of a burgh in Scotland.
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(UK, Ireland) collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries.
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(UK, law) The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
adj
(of land) Owned, managed or used in common.
n
The condition of land that is held in common.
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A state, condition, or things shared or held in common; commonality.
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A right to own land that is held in common between two or more people and under some servitudes.
adj
Of or pertaining to a commote (a secular division of land in medieval Wales).
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A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales.
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The communal ownership of property.
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A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
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(countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
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(Canada, Quebec, countable) A condominium.
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(historical, law) To deprive (lands etc.) of commonable quality, by enclosing or appropriating.
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A meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.
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(archaic) Management of one’s residency.
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(obsolete) The common law or right of the people.
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The state of being a homeowner
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A person working independently, under a contract; a self-employed person.
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(obsolete, UK, law) To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.
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(law, UK, obsolete) The right or privilege of intercommoning.
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The ownership of a resource by multiple parties.
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the rights of indigenous peoples to land, either individually or collectively.
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(uncountable) A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.
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(law) A person living in a country who is no legal permanent resident.
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A person who occupies an office or a position.
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The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
adj
Subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence.
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(US) The policy by which a person's background (e.g. race or religion) may not be considered as a factor in whether to sell them a property.
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A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
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A territory under the rule of another country.
adj
Coming from or the occupation of land.
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A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
n
One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
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(especially US) Land regarded as owned by the public, and not subject to a land patent or other forms of private ownership (for example, unowned prairie in the southwestern and western United States).
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(law) The commons, or common heritage of mankind.
adj
(archaic) Remaining; residual.
n
(obsolete) An area of land in private ownership (as opposed to common land).
adj
Possessed of territory.
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