The A.B.L. was a single-entity structure under which all teams were centrally owned and the players were signed and paid by the league.

Chinese rare earth industry is dominated by local state owned firms, private firms and centrally owned state firms.

In addition, the former single-entity league, centrally owned by the N.B.A., has recently changed to allow individual team ownership.

MLS operates under a single-entity structure in which teams are centrally owned by the league.

Under the single-entity concept, the 12 M.L.S. teams are centrally owned, and the league office controls player movement and salaries.

Despite major differences, the leagues share one common element: all teams are centrally owned and the players are signed and paid by the leagues.

These accounts would be owned by workers but centrally managed.

Teams were to be centrally owned, and former Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Tom Wilkinson was to serve as league president.

The current Central Hockey League was created in 1992 as a centrally owned league, owned by Ray Miron and Bill Levins.

Indeed, the sale of the Herald group could produce the country's first centrally owned commercial television network.