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OWNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having an owner; often used in combination
Example:
state-owned railways
Classified under:
Similar:
closely-held (owned by a relatively few shareholders)
Antonym:
unowned (having no owner)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb own
Context examples:
Relating to, concerned with, limited to, owned by, or in the interests of a particular nation.
(National, NCI Thesaurus)
Kitty then owned, with a very natural triumph on knowing more than the rest of us, that in Lydia's last letter she had prepared her for such a step.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Price, it appeared, scarcely ever stirred out of doors, except of a Sunday; she owned she could seldom, with her large family, find time for a walk.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A business enterprise entered into for profit which is owned by more than one person, each of whom is a "partner."
(Partnership, NCI Thesaurus)
The creditor Hungarian Development Bank is state-owned as well.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
A government-owned, contractor operated cancer research facility located in Frederick, MD.
(Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, NCI Thesaurus)
He owned, when driven into a corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about the crew, that some of them were as brisk as he wanted to see and all had behaved fairly well.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He agreed; and I went on by assuring him, that the ship was made by creatures like myself; who, in all the countries I had travelled, as well as in my own, were the only governing rational animals; and that upon my arrival hither, I was as much astonished to see the Houyhnhnms act like rational beings, as he, or his friends, could be, in finding some marks of reason in a creature he was pleased to call a Yahoo; to which I owned my resemblance in every part, but could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The general was flattered by her looks of surprise, which told him almost as plainly, as he soon forced her to tell him in words, that she had never seen any gardens at all equal to them before; and he then modestly owned that, without any ambition of that sort himself—without any solicitude about it—he did believe them to be unrivalled in the kingdom.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He began by speaking of the concert gravely, more like the Captain Wentworth of Uppercross; owned himself disappointed, had expected singing; and in short, must confess that he should not be sorry when it was over.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
