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owned

owned

1.1
A thing that has an owner, like a car or company
  • adjective
  • /oʊnd/
translation icon : propio
  • It's an independently owned gym here in Burbank.

It would ban privately owned cultivation sites and dispensaries.

Examples

  • But commercial property is overwhelmingly owned by the rich.

  • Many state-owned enterprises are crucial to the national economy.

  • Most of them are owned by one larger party yes.

  • It's a glass bottle and it's a woman owned company, small business support.

  • There are big state owned entities still.

  • The world is the largest privately owned yacht on the planet.

  • They were built on land owned and donated by Jain merchants.

  • There's factories, there's farms, and all of these are owned by somebody.

  • The hotel is a family-owned business that has been running for three generations.

  • The park was developed on land that is owned by the city council.

Synonyms

held
vsowned
3.8

A place that a person or group controls

refers to legal possession rather than mere occupation or control

Antonyms

unowned
1 4.8

Not belonging to anyone

Compounds

employee-owned business
3.6

A company where the people who work there have most or all the shares

employee-owned enterprise
4.6

A business where workers have most or all of the company, often through shares

How Controlled

possessed
6.4
owned
1.1
independent
360 2.8

Surface Forms

owned positive

Morphology

owned = own (transparent) = own + ed

The word 'owned' is transparently derived from the verb 'own' with the addition of the past participle suffix '-ed'.

Etymology

Owned comes from the simple word own, which means 'to have' or 'belong to someone'. So when something is owned it literally has an owner or is in someone's possession.