(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
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Owned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Own
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(1) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(2) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
(3) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(4) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(5) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(6) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
(7) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(8) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
(9) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(10) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
(11) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
(12) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(13) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
(14) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(15) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
(16) Davies is understood not to be seeking substantial money either for the club itself, which he owns via Fildraw, a private trust registered in the tax haven of Bermuda.
(17) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
(18) The relative efficiency of investor-owned and tax-exempt hospitals in the product market for hospital services is examined as the free cash flow theory is used to explore capital-market conditions of hospitals.
(19) According to the latest available ABS data, which is for 2013-14, 72% of investment property assets are owned by, and 52% of investment property debt is owed by, households in the top 20% (ie the richest one-fifth) of the household wealth distribution.
(20) The club train on a council-owned facility and so, when the pitches are not playable or there are other things on, they sometimes have to look elsewhere to stage their sessions.