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adjective
Idiom1.
owed, unpaid, or due for payment: to pay what is owing.
2.
owing to, because of; as a result of: Owing to a mistake in the payroll department, some of us were issued incorrect checks.
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Owing
is always a great word to know.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to be under obligation to pay or repay: to owe money to the bank; to owe the bank interest on a mortgage.
2.
to be in debt to: He says he doesn't owe anybody.
3.
to be indebted (to) as the cause or source of: to owe one's fame to good fortune.
4.
to have or bear (a feeling or attitude) toward someone or something: to owe gratitude to one's rescuers.
5.
Obsolete. to possess; own.
verb (used without object)
6.
to be in debt: Neither lend nor owe. Who owes for the antipasto?
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Word Origin & History
owe
O.E. agan (pt. ahte) "to have, own," from P.Gmc. *aiganan "to possess" (cf. O.Fris. aga, O.N. eiga, O.H.G. eigan, Goth. aigan "to possess, have"), from PIE *aik- "to be master of, possess" (cf. Skt. ise "he owns," isah "owner, lord, ruler;" Avestan is- "riches," isvan- "well-off, rich"). Sense of "to
EXPANDhave to repay" began in late O.E. with the phrase agan to geldanne lit. "to own to yield," which was used to translate L. debere (earlier in O.E. this would have been sceal "shall"); by c.1175 the phrase had been shortened to simply agan, and own (v.) took over this word's original sense. An original Gmc. preterite-present verb (cf. can, dare, may, etc.). New past tense form owed arose 15c. to replace oughte, which developed into ought (1).
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