Usually means: Having ownership or control over.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. possessing: Merriam-Webster
  2. possessing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. possessing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Possessing, possessing: Wordnik
  5. possessing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. possessing: Wiktionary
  7. Possessing, possessing: Dictionary.com
  8. possessing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Possessing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Possessing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. possessing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. possessing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. possessing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (possess)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
verb:  Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.
verb:  Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
verb:  (also reflexive, chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
verb:  To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with (a person).
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To cause an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
verb:  To occupy the attention or time of (someone).
verb:  (also literary) To obtain or seize (something); to gain, to win.
verb:  (also reflexive) Chiefly followed by of or with: to vest ownership of something in (oneself or someone); to bestow upon, to endow.
verb:  (law) To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To give (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint, to inform.
verb:  To have the ability to use, or knowledge of (a language, a skill, etc.)
verb:  To inhabit or occupy (a place).
verb:  Chiefly followed by that: to convince or persuade (someone).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  To inhabit or occupy a place.
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