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What (who) is ours - definition
ours
BRITISH TRADE UNION
OURS; One Union for Regional Staff
Note: 'Ours' is the first person plural possessive pronoun.
You use ours to refer to something that belongs or relates both to yourself and to one or more other people.
There are few strangers in a town like ours...
Half the houses had been fitted with alarms and ours hadn't.
PRON
ours
BRITISH TRADE UNION
OURS; One Union for Regional Staff
¦ possessive pronoun used to refer to something belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more others previously mentioned or easily identified.
Usage
There is no need for an apostrophe: the spelling should be ours not our's.
Examples of use of ours
1. "This group of actors seem to be ours, but they‘re not ours.
2. Certainly, their unemployment is lower than ours.
3. "It‘s interesting, and it‘s not ours," Watkins said.
4. When is ours going to start? – Suzanne Devey–Morris, Wolverhampton.
5. Despite the couple‘s mistake, it is their mistake, not ours.