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To possess, own.
example
I have a house and a car.
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To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
example
Do you have the key? (not necessarily one's own key)
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Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
example
I have a really mean boss.
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To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
example
Can I have a look at that?
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To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
example
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
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To experience, go through, undergo.
example
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
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To be afflicted with, suffer from.
example
He had a cold last week.
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(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
example
I had already eaten.
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Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
example
They haven't eaten dinner yet, have they?
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(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
example
I have to go.
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To give birth to.
example
My mother had me when she was 25.
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To engage in sexual intercourse with.
example
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
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To accept as a romantic partner.
example
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
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(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
example
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
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(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
example
He had him arrested for trespassing.
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(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
example
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
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(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
example
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
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To defeat in a fight; take.
example
I could have him!
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(obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
example
I have no German.
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To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
example
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
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To trick, to deceive.
example
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
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(often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
example
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
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(often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
example
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
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To host someone; to take in as a guest.
example
Thank you for having me!
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To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
example
I have two contacts on my scope.
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(of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
example
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
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To make an observation of (a bird species).