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own | Business English

own
verb[ T ]
uk /əʊn/us
to have something that legally belongs to you:
He has owned the business since 1995.
The group owns assets worth $620 million.
This gave many people the opportunity to own their own home for the first time.
to accept responsibility for something such as an idea:
For the reorganization to work, employees need to own the idea of change.
own
adjective
uk /əʊn/us
belonging or relating to a particular person rather than to other people:
She started her own business selling cameras.
The software helps you create your own website.
He invested €5 million of his own money.

Examples of own

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Indeed, this is a classic book, still owned by many players.
His approach to psychopathology was sceptical and philosophical; and he never created his own school of psychiatric, let alone psychopathological, teaching.
Here was a version of philosophical commerce closer to our own definition of the word "commerce," yet one intimately related to practice.
On the other hand, each form has its own unique onset and rime, which means that no form benefits from phonetic consistency.
Instead, the person seeking self-insight must employ a priori causal theories to account for his or her own psychological operations.
Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns.
Our own compendium takes these into account, adding several revisions and new identifications.
The degree is delivered by the institution in which the student is registered, following its own regulations.
It presents arguments for the relevance of the child's own production for the building of linguistic representations.
However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.
Parents' own health risk behaviours were correlated with those reported for their children.
Some reported a change in their own behavior toward their spouses, such as being more considerate and less argumentative.
According to this definition - ideology-as-shorthand - it should have been no more difficult to assess a party's positions than to formulate one's own ideology.
The remaining parties agreed to pay their own costs.
It helps me to think things through systematically and adopt resolve to take action, and it reminds me of my own past thinking.
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