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HAVE GOT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
Example:
She holds a Master's degree from Harvard
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Verb group:
feature; have (have as a feature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "have got"):
keep; maintain; sustain (supply with necessities and support)
hold on; keep (retain possession of)
keep (look after; be the keeper of; have charge of)
keep; maintain (maintain for use and service)
keep (have as a supply)
monopolise; monopolize (have or exploit a monopoly of)
exert; maintain; wield (have and exercise)
carry; stock; stockpile (have on hand)
bear; hold (have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices)
carry (have or possess something abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They have got the money
Context examples:
If you have got your feet well warmed, I'll show you your bedroom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Dear me! continued the anxious mother, what a sad fire we have got, and I dare say you are both starved with cold.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Oh, my dear Miss Dashwood, said Mrs. Palmer soon afterwards, I have got such a favour to ask of you and your sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
We haven't been here a great while, you know, but we have got acquainted with all our neighbors but you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Where might you have got the paper? Why, hillo! Look here, now; this ain't lucky! You've gone and cut this out of a Bible. What fool's cut a Bible?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“What is the use of building fresh ships,” cried Foley, “when even with a ten-pound bounty you can’t man the ships that you have got?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light way with it; and then who else could have got in by the laboratory door?
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As for myself, I am glad to have got the bustling days of preparation and the pangs of leave-taking behind me, and I have no doubt that I show it in my bearing.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What Mr. Elton had learned from the ostler on the subject, being the accumulation of the ostler's own knowledge, and the knowledge of the servants at Randalls, was, that a messenger had come over from Richmond soon after the return of the party from Box Hill—which messenger, however, had been no more than was expected; and that Mr. Churchill had sent his nephew a few lines, containing, upon the whole, a tolerable account of Mrs. Churchill, and only wishing him not to delay coming back beyond the next morning early; but that Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We have bought equipment like sensor cameras and bio-acoustic devices that listen for the night parrots and extraordinarily we have got a photo of a night parrot flying across one of the sensor cameras.
(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)
