condominium

noun (plural condominiums)

• 1North American a building or complex of buildings containing a number of individually owned apartments or houses.
• each of the individual apartments or houses in a condominium.
• [mass noun] 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 [mass noun] the joint control of a state’s affairs by other states.
• [count noun] a state so governed: Sudan was from 1899 an Anglo-Egyptian condominium