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owner

[ oh-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who owns; possessor; proprietor.


owner

/ ˈəʊnə /

noun

  1. a person who owns; legal possessor


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  • non·owner noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of owner1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English; own + -er 1

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Example Sentences

The owner of the original video of the “dead cops” chant told me it was taken on 32nd Street between 5th and Madison avenues.

They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.

The owner of www.blow-me.org is facing a lawsuit for sexual harassment.

She stormed off next door, where the business owner tried to chase Wislon off before the bandit squeezed off a round.

Question 9: If the female captive was impregnated by her owner, can he then sell her?

Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.

By their agreement with the owner, the Company have the right of mining under an area of 185 acres, at a royalty of 6d.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Of the Ten Commandments, seven are designed as defences of the possessions and prerogatives of God and the property-owner.

The rent for which the owner can lease it, emerges simply as a consequence of the existing state of wages and prices.

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