What's the difference between ownerless and unowned?
Ownerless
Definition:
(a.) Without an owner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
(2) It is only the arrival of what Lord Myners has dubbed "the ownerless corporation" that has obscured the fact.
(3) These measures include appropriate health care of pets to eliminate infectious agents, reducing the number of uncontrolled, ownerless pets as well as unwanted or poorly supervised pets, preventing pets from soiling public places with their feces, excluding animals from areas where children play, enforcing leash laws, and promoting responsible pet ownership.
(4) The shareholder value revolution has created a crisis in corporate values and the amoral, ownerless corporation mindlessly cutting costs – the very insurgents Corrigan and Parish want to welcome.
(5) It tries to run an integrated system crucial for cure and health, but ownerless companies cherry picking lush contracts, with executives' pay tied to share price performance, will drive up costs, making healthcare less effective, the system more unstable and induce a crisis over values.
(6) He said that "without significant steps forward, the 'ownerless corporations' will sleep-walk in to another catastrophe".
(7) The emergence of the ownerless corporation seeking to maximise short-term profits is now the key feature of modern capitalism.
Unowned
Definition:
(a.) Not owned; having no owner.
(a.) Not acknowledged; not avowed.
Example Sentences:
(1) But "unowned" banks, unlike other PLCs, engage in the unique business of creating money and credit, knowing that governments must ultimately stand behind them if anything goes wrong.
(2) Britain, with its companies uniquely "unowned", uniquely focused on the share price and its economy uniquely organised to favour finance over industry, was inevitably going to be the most acute example of the trend.
(3) The highest proportion of bites occurred from May through August from 9 am through 12 noon; unowned cats accounted for most wounds.