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verb ADV. communally, jointly Only when the means of production were communally owned would classes disappear. She owns the house jointly with her husband. | legally He committed the crime with a gun that he legally owned. PHRASES directly/indirectly owned by sb, own your own boat, home, etc. They dreamed of owning their own home. | partly/wholly owned by sb The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SNL Research. | privately/publicly owned The museum is privately owned.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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own up
to admit that you have done something wrong
• No one has owned up to stealing the money.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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In addition to the idioms beginning with OWN, Also see AFRAID OF ONE'S OWN SHADOW; AFTER ONE'S OWN HEART; BEAT SOMEONE AT HIS OR HER OWN GAME; BLOW ONE'S OWN HORN; CALL ONE'S OWN; CLOSE TO HOME; COME INTO (ONE'S OWN); DIG ONE'S OWN GRAVE; DO ONE'S (OWN) THING; DOSE OF ONE'S OWN MEDICINE; GET (ONE'S OWN) BACK; GET ONE'S (OWN) WAY; GO ONE'S (OWN) WAY; HOLD ONE'S OWN; IN ONE'S (OWN) INTEREST; IN ONE'S OWN BACKYARD; IN ONE'S OWN RIGHT; IN ONE'S OWN WORLD; KEEP ONE'S OWN COUNSEL; KNOW ONE'S OWN MIND; LEAVE TO SOMEONE'S OWN DEVICES; MIND OF ONE'S OWN; MIND ONE'S OWN BUSINESS; OF ONE'S OWN ACCORD; ON ONE'S (OWN) FEET; ON ONE'S OWN; ON ONE'S OWN ACCOUNT; ON ONE'S OWN TIME; PADDLE ONE'S OWN CANOE; PAY BACK IN ONE'S OWN COIN; PAY ONE'S (OWN) WAY; PICK ON (SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE); PULL ONE'S (OWN) WEIGHT; SIGN ONE'S OWN DEATH WARRANT; STEW IN ONE'S OWN JUICE; TAKE INTO ONE'S (OWN) HANDS; UNDER ONE'S OWN STEAM; WRITE ONE'S OWN TICKET. own person, be one's Also, be one's own man or woman. Be independent, be responsible for oneself. For example, We can't tell Jerry what to do? he's his own person. Chaucer used this idiom in Troilus and Cressida: "I am my own woman, well at ease." [Late 1300s]
American Heritage Idioms
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verb
possess:
I own the house I live in.
adj.
private:
That is my own car.
Simple Definitions
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own
if you own something, it legally belongs to you:
• They live in a flat but they don’t own it. • The land is owned by farmers. • a privately owned plane
have
[ not in passive ] to own something – used when focussing on the fact that someone has the use of something, rather than the fact that they legally own it:
• How many students have a cell phone? • I wish I had a sports car.
possess
[ not in passive ] formal to own something:
• It is illegal to possess a firearm in Britain. • I don’t even possess a smart suit!
belong to somebody/something
[ not in passive ] if something belongs to you, you own it:
• The ring belonged to my grandmother.
hold
to own shares in a company:
• One man holds a third of the company’s shares.
be the property of somebody/something
formal to be owned by someone – written on signs, labels etc:
• This camera is the property of the BBC.
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