Usually means: Possesses legal right to property.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. owns: Merriam-Webster
  2. owns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. owns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Owns, own's, owns: Wordnik
  5. owns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. owns: Wiktionary
  7. owns: Dictionary.com
  8. owns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. owns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. owns: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. owns: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OWNS: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (own)

adjective:  Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
adjective:  Not shared.
adjective:  (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not foreign.
verb:  (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
verb:  (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
verb:  (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
verb:  (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
verb:  (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
verb:  (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
verb:  (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
verb:  (transitive) To take responsibility for.
verb:  (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
verb:  (transitive) To claim as one's own.
verb:  (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
noun:  (Internet slang) A crushing insult.
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