To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.transitive
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.transitive
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.informal, transitive
To virtually or figuratively enslave.transitive
To defeat, dominate, or be above.Internet, slang
To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).slang, transitive
To be very good.intransitive, slang
To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.intransitive
To acknowledge.transitive
To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.transitive
To take responsibility for.transitive
To recognise.transitive
To claim as one's own.transitive
To confess.UK, dialectal, intransitive
Forms
he/she/it
owns
-ing form
owning
past participle
owned
past
owned
Example sentences1347 results
The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
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