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   con·do·min·i·um

   /ˌkändəˈminēəm/

   noun

   • 1. a building or complex of buildings containing a number of individually owned apartments or houses. North American
   • ▪ each of the individual apartments or houses in a condominium complex.
   • ▪ the system of ownership by which condominiums operate, in which owners have full title to the individual apartment or house and an undivided interest in the shared parts of the property.
   • 2. the joint control of a country's or territory's affairs by other countries.
   • ▪ a state so governed: "Sudan was from 1899 an Anglo-Egyptian condominium"

   Word Origin early 18th century: modern Latin, from con- ‘together with’ + dominium ‘right of ownership’ (see dominion). condominium (sense 1) dates from the 1960s.

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