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