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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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adjective, pronoun, verb
adjective, pronoun
1 used to emphasize that sth belongs to or is connected with sb: It was her own idea. + I saw it with my own eyes (= I didn't hear about it from somebody else). + Is the car your own? + Your day off is your own (= you can spend it as you wish). + Our children are grown up and have children of their own. + For reasons of his own (= particular reasons that perhaps only he knew about), he refused to join the club. + The accident happened through no fault of her own. + He wants to come into the business on his own terms. + I need a room of my own. + I have my very own room at last.
Help Note: Own cannot be used after an article: I need my own room. + I need an own room. + It's good to have your own room. + It's good to have the own room.
2 done or produced by and for yourself: She makes all her own clothes. + He has to cook his own meals.
Idioms: come into your / its own to have the opportunity to show how good or useful you are or sth is: When the traffic's this bad, a bicycle really comes into its own.
get your own back (on sb) (informal) to do sth to sb in return for harm they have done to you; to get REVENGE: I'll get my own back on him one day, I swear!
hold your own (against sb/sth) (in sth) to remain in a strong position when sb is attacking you, competing with you, etc: Business isn't good but we're managing to hold our own. + She can hold her own against anybody in an argument. + The patient is holding her own although she is still very sick.
(all) on your own
1 alone; without anyone else: I'm all on my own today. + She lives on her own.
2 without help: He did it on his own.
more at MIND n., SAKE, SOUND n.
+ verb (not used in the progressive tenses)
1 [VN] to have sth that belongs to you, especially because you have bought it: Do you own your house or do you rent it? + I don't own anything of any value. + Most of the apartments are privately owned. + an American owned company + Does anyone own this coat? It was left in a classroom. + Don't tell me what to do-you don't own me!
2 ~ to sth / to doing sth (old-fashioned) to admit that sth is true: [V] He owned to a feeling of guilt. + [V (that)] She owned (that) she had been present.
Idioms: behave / act as if you own the place
think you own the place (disapproving) to behave in a very confident way that annoys other people, for example by telling them what to do
Phrasal Verbs: own up (to sth / to doing sth) to admit that you are responsible for sth bad or wrong
Synonym: CONFESS
I'm still waiting for someone to own up to the breakages. + Why don't you just own up and hope she forgives you?

Collocation dictionary

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ADV.

communally, jointly

Only when the means of production were communally owned would classes disappear. She owns the house jointly with her husband.

| legally

He committed the crime with a gun that he legally owned.

PHRASES

directly/indirectly owned by sb, own your own boat, home, etc.

They dreamed of owning their own home.

| partly/wholly owned by sb

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SNL Research.

| privately/publicly owned

The museum is privately owned.

Concise English dictionary

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owns|owned|owningəʊn
verb
+have ownership or possession of
adj.
+belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive

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