Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Privately-owned: Refers to property, assets, or means of production that are owned by an individual or a private entity, as opposed to being owned by the state or the community (public ownership).

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đất đai tư hữu không thể mua bán tự do trong chế độ đó. (Privately-owned land could not be freely bought and sold under that regime.)
  • Họ bảo vệ quyền tư hữu tài sản trong hiến pháp. (They protect the right to private property in the constitution.)

Advanced Usage

• "chế độ tư hữu": the system of private ownership; the private property system.
  • Sự tồn tại của chế độ tư hữu là một đặc trưng của nền kinh tế tư bản. (The existence of the private ownership system is a characteristic of a capitalist economy.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sở hữu tư nhân (n): private ownership. This is a noun phrase with a meaning closely related to the adjective "tư hữu."
  • Sở hữu tư nhân về tư liệu sản xuất. (Private ownership of the means of production.)

Synonyms

• Private: belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group only.
• Privately-held: owned by a private individual or group, not publicly traded.

Related Concepts

• Công hữu (adj): publicly-owned; communal. This is the direct antonym of "tư hữu."
  • Tài sản công hữu. (Publicly-owned assets.)
• Quyền sở hữu (n): ownership rights.
• Tài sản tư hữu (n): private property; privately-owned assets.

adj

1. privately-owned