POSSESSION


Meaning of POSSESSION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pəzeʃ(ə)n ]

( possessions)

1.

If you are in possession of something, you have it, because you have obtained it or because it belongs to you. ( FORMAL )

Those documents are now in the possession of the Guardian...

We should go up and take possession of the land...

He was also charged with illegal possession of firearms...

N-UNCOUNT : oft in N of n

2.

Your possessions are the things that you own or have with you at a particular time.

People had lost their homes and all their possessions...

She had tidied away her possessions.

= belongings

N-COUNT : usu pl , poss N

3.

A country’s possessions are countries or territories that it controls. ( FORMAL )

All of them were French possessions at one time or another.

= colonies

N-COUNT : usu pl , supp N

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