Word Finder - owns

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To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

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I own this car.

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To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

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The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.

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To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

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I will own my enemies.

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To virtually or figuratively enslave.

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To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

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To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

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To grant; give.

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To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

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To admit; concede; acknowledge.

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To take responsibility for.

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To answer to.

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To recognise; acknowledge.

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to own one as a son

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To claim as one's own.

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To confess.

When he didn't comment, she asked, "Who owns the beach?"

I'll ask Fred to try and run down who owns that storage place.

First off, I'm going to find out who owns that mine.

Miss M was much nettled when I told her I'd no longer dance to her music and I saw her talking about me to the man who owns this dreadful place.

Justin owns this cabin?

I can't figure out who owns this house or who has the money.

He owns your ass.

The municipality owns its electric-lighting plant; the water-works are under private ownership. The first settlement in the neighbourhood was made in 1838.

The city owns the water supply.

This foundation is the oldest and richest of the kind in Austria; it owns much of the land upon which the north-western suburbs of Vienna stand.

He is also a certified airline pilot, and owns his own small fleet of planes.

Finally, whether one owns his own tuxedo or rents one for formal wear, every well-dressed man needs tuxedo socks.

The person who owns the single DS cartridge will go through the in-game menu to allow other DS units to connect and download from it.

Everyone's life is controlled by the Corporation, one industry that owns the land, the city, and the people within.

I'll buy it from whoever owns it.

In 1735 the few Indians remaining were put under guardianship. The township owns a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible.

The municipality owns and operates the water-works, electric-lighting plant and gas plant.

The municipality owns and operates the waterworks, a natural gas plant, and an electric lighting plant.

The municipality owns and operates the gas and electric-lighting plants and the water works (the watersupply being derived from natural ponds, some of which are outside the city limits), and owns and leases (to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad) a railway extending (10.3 m.) to Westfield, Mass.

The municipality owns and operates its gas-lighting plant.

The SouthWestern Company owns the local railway stations (Town and Dock and Southampton West, besides suburban stations), but through connexions are made with the north by way of the Great Western and Great Central and the Midland and South-Western Junction railways.

The city owns and operates its electric-lighting plant and its water-works system.

The corporation owns the Stray, and also the Spa concert rooms and grounds, Harlow Moor, Crescent Gardens, Royal Bath gardens and other large open spaces, as well as Royal Baths, Victoria Baths and Starbeck Baths.

The municipality owns and operates its water - works.

The family owns large estates at Siena.

The municipality owns and operates the water-works, and the water is brought from reservoirs in the Pequanac Valley 20-30 m.

The municipality owns its water-works.

The Bath, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society owns small but extremely well-managed Zoological Gardens, well situated on the edge of Clifton Downs.

In the city are a public library, the Beverly hospital, the New England industrial school for deaf mutes (organized, 1876; incorporated, 1879), and the Beverly historical society (1891), which owns a large colonial house, in which there is a valuable historical collection.

The municipality owns its waterworks and filtration plant.

The city owns its water-works.

A quartz schist, suitable for making whetstones and oilstones, was discovered in 1823 by Isaac Pike at Pike Station, Grafton county, and the Pike Manufacturing Company now owns and operates quarries outside this state also; in 1907 New Hampshire was the principal producer of scythe-stones in the United States, and the total value of whetstones made in 1907 (including the value of precious stones') was $59,870.

The municipality owns and operates its water-works and electric-lighting plant.

The municipality owns its waterworks and an electric-lighting plant.

Among the city's manufactures are lumber, furniture, iron, stoves, flour and brooms. The municipality owns and operates its waterworks.

The city owns and operates its electric-lighting plant and water-works.

The municipality owns and operates its waterworks and street-lighting plants.

The township owns and operates its water works; the water supply is obtained from Weymouth Great Pond in the village of South Weymouth.

The town owns and operates its water-works.

The municipality maintains several well-equipped public baths, and owns its water-supply system, the water being obtained from Lake Erie.

The city owns and operates its water-supply system.

The municipality owns the waterworks, the water being obtained from artesian wells.

The municipality owns and operates its electric-lighting plant.

The municipality owns and operates the waterworks, and gas and electriclighting plants.

The municipality owns and operates the water system, water being drawn from lakes near Pike's Peak.

The municipality owns the water-works.

The town is governed by a council, with provost and bailies, and owns the gas and water supplies and the electric lighting.

The municipality owns and operates its water-works, water being obtained from artesian wells.

He shows advance in every direction, and by the end of the later Neolithic period he is master of the arts of pottery and spinning, is engaged in agricultural pursuits, owns domestic animals, and makes weapons and tools of fine shape, either ground and polished or beautifully chipped.

The municipality owns and operates the water-works, the water-supply being obtained from artesian wells.