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  • 11-owned — [[t] oʊnd[/t]] COMB in ADJ owned combines with nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to form adjectives that indicate who owns something. More than 50 state owned companies have been sold since the early 1980s. ...the Japanese owned Bel Air Hotel in Los …

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  • 12owned —    second hand    A refinement of the pre owned theme. In 1999 prospective customers were being invited in advertisements to buy owned Rolls Royce motor cars, as though there were also a store of abandoned vehicles from which to draw, if they so… …

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  • 13Owned reserves —   Any reserve of natural gas that the reporting company owns as a result of oil and gas leases, fee mineral ownership, royalty reservations, or lease or royalty reservations and assignments committed to services under certificate authorizations… …

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  • 14Owned/rented — (As used in EIA s consumption surveys.) The relationship of a housing unit s occupants to the structure itself, not the land on which the structure is located. Owned means the owner or co owner is a member of the household and the housing unit is …

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  • 15Owned — Own Own, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Owned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Owning}.] [OE. ohnien, ahnien, AS. [=a]gnian, fr. [=a]gen own, a. See {Own}, a.] To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess;… …

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  • 16OWNED — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index owned noun birthright (2), claim, claimant, effect, holding, land, monopoly, owner, ownership, resource …

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  • 17owned — adjective having an owner; often used in combination (Freq. 1) state owned railways • Ant: ↑unowned • Similar to: ↑closely held …

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  • 18Jewish-owned — owned by Jewish people (of a business, etc.) …

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  • 19owned — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. possessed, had, bought, purchased, kept, inherited, enjoyed, fallen into the possession of, seized by, in the seizin of, in hand, on hand, bound over, descended upon, dowered upon, in the possession of, among the… …

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  • 20Owned — Abend …

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