Prerogative vs Possession - What's the difference?
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A hereditary or official right or privilege.
A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
A right, generally
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A property, attribute or ability which gives one a superiority or advantage over others; an inherent advantage or privilege; a talent.
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.
As nouns the difference between prerogative and possession
is that prerogative is a hereditary or official right or privilege while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As an adjective prerogative
is having a hereditary or official right or privilege.As a verb possession is
to invest with property.prerogative
English
(wikipedia prerogative)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- "Ah, that's your prerogative' as an Intelligence officer, Jimmy. But it's been your ' prerogative for weeks, months, and nothing has happened, as I told you "
- If you want to wear your hair a certain way, that's your prerogative . You don't have to check with all your friends to make sure it's okay.
- If you choose another approach — that's your prerogative . But the problem is that parents often don't realize they're making the choice
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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.