Usually means: Possessing legal rights to something.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word owning:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. owning: Merriam-Webster
  2. owning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. owning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Owning, owning: Wordnik
  5. owning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. owning: Wiktionary
  7. Owning, owning: Dictionary.com
  8. owning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Owning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Owning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Owning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. owning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. owning: FreeDictionary.org
  14. owning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. owning: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. owning: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See own as well.)

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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