What does "community owned" mean?

of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.

Community owned

Q: What is a synonym for "community owned"?

Common synonyms include: co-op grocery, collective, collective ownership, communal, communal ownership, community oriented.

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1
of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising. not-comparable
"For over seventy years, community owned rural telephony networks have flourished in the USA and about 1,000 exist today."

Synonyms

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co-op grocery collective collective ownership communal communal ownership community oriented

Antonyms

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authoritarian control centralized management government ownership individual ownership

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"For over seventy years, community owned rural telephony networks have flourished in the USA and about 1,000 exist today."

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