Definitions of owe:
  • verb:   be in debt
    Example: "She owes me $200"
  • verb:   be obliged to pay or repay
  • verb:   be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
    Example: "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"



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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to owe:   (22 results)

More general:
be, build on, build upon, repose on, rest on

More specific:
chalk up, default on, default, mortgage, run up

Often used in the same context:
owing, owed, ponder

Appears in the definition of:
alien, allegiance, british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations, fealty, foreigner, iou, noncitizen, outlander



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