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owe

/əʊ/

An illustration for owe

verb

to need to pay money to a person, bank, business, etc.

  • “Never forget that you owe your existence to your parents.”Tatoeba
  • “Owing to lack of water, we had a poor crop.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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