owned

[owned]

Having an owner; often used in combination

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Adjective
having an owner; often used in combination; "state-owned railways"


imp. & p. p.
of Own


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Usage Examples

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Misspelled Form

owned, iowned, 9owned, 0owned, powned, lowned, iwned, 9wned, 0wned, pwned, lwned, oiwned, o9wned, o0wned, opwned, olwned, oqwned, o2wned, o3wned, oewned, oawned, oswned, oqned, o2ned, o3ned, oened, oaned, osned, owqned, ow2ned, ow3ned, owened, owaned, owsned, owbned, owhned, owjned, owmned, ow ned, owbed, owhed, owjed, owmed, ow ed, ownbed, ownhed, ownjed, ownmed, own ed, ownwed, own3ed, own4ed, ownred, ownsed, ownded, ownwd, own3d, own4d, ownrd, ownsd, owndd, ownewd, owne3d, owne4d, ownerd, ownesd, ownedd, ownesd, owneed, ownefd, ownexd, ownecd, ownes, ownee, ownef, ownex, ownec, owneds, ownede, ownedf, ownedx, ownedc.

Other Usage Examples

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

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