What is the difference between possession and accountability?
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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
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(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness; responsible for; answerable for.
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(military) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
As nouns the difference between possession and accountability
is that possession is something that someone possesses, but to which he does not necessarily have private property rights while accountability is the state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness; responsible for; answerable for.As a verb possession
is (obsolete) to invest with property.possession
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Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.