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owe English

Meaning owe meaning

What does owe mean?
Definitions in simple English

owe Verb

— If you owe something you need to pay or give it to someone because of something you have been given. For example, if I ask to borrow five dollars for lunch from a friend, then I will owe that friend five dollars. It could also be something you agree to pay (like a bill) or something you lost . I owe $50 to the phone company right now. Just remember, you owe me five dollars for the lunch I bought you. I owe John for giving me a ride home last night. (Used to mean I owe kindness in return for kindness, not that I owe money.) I owe you a shirt since I ruined one of yours. — If you owe a person, there is something you need to pay or give to that person. That is, you owe something to that person. Thanks for the help! I really owe you for that! — If you owe a lot to someone or something, you have something to thank that person (or thing) for. We owe as much to good luck as to our own skills. We owe a debt of gratitude to those who started this organization. Most people don't know how much they owe their parents. I would have died if you had not pulled me from the water -- I owe you my life. — If something owes to something else, what it owes to is what caused or the reason for doing it. Much of the success of early rock music owed to the ability of teenagers to buy records. Owing to the fact that I will be absent tomorrow I must do extra work today.

owe

— verb be obliged to pay or repay — verb be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory — verb be in debt She owes me $200 I still owe for the car The thesis owes much to his adviser

Synonyms owe synonyms

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owe English » English

be in debt indebted be indebted debt be due to run into debt obliged must deficient be behind terrify possess own owing owe a debt obliged to need little lack in debt in arrears humble have to have a debt have frighten greatly fill with terror due confused buy on credit borrow bear be to be obliged be obligated be in arrears be deficient be beholden alarm

Topics owe topics

What do people use owe to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Praise

Thank
Work and occupation Finance Borrow

Owe
Work and occupation Finance

Tax

  • What words refer to owing tax?
    owe tax

Conjugation owe conjugation

How do you conjugate owe?

owe · verb

Examples owe examples

How do I use owe in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I owe my success to him.
I owe my success to your help.
I owe ten dollars to her.
You don't owe me anything.
I owe Tom money.
You owe us three hundred dollars.
You owe me a favor.
You owe me a beer.
I owe Tom an apology.
Tom is said to owe a lot of money.
I owe Tom nothing.
I owe you ten dollars.
To whom do we owe the discovery of penicillin?
I owe you 3,000 yen.
I owe what I am today to my uncle.
I owe it to you that I am still alive.
I owe what I am today to my parents.
I owe it to my mother that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
I owe what I am to my father.
I owe it entirely to you that I have succeeded thus far.
I owe it to my doctor that I am still alive.
I owe what I am today to education.
You owe me an apology for that.
I owe it all to you.
I owe my success to you.
Never forget that you owe what you are to your parents.
I owe it to my parents that I am so healthy.
I owe what I am today to Dr. Brown, who saved my life.
I owe what I am to my parents.

Movie subtitles

My father might be in prison. That doesn't change the fact that you owe us 600 grand.
Cooper, you still owe me that make-out.
Ah, my good Lord Craigmore, bastard son of Leon Ravenhelm, to what do I owe this honor?
And, the international boys owe you one.
The woman, who is the reason for my return, I am unable to find. The bearer of this letter, I owe money.
That's another buffalo hide you owe me, Tex.
You both owe me a month's dues to the club, don't you?
How much do I owe you and him for my life?
It's what I owe you for my life.
I Owe Him This.
But, darling, I owe everything I am to you.
Don't you think you owe me something?
You owe everybody here dough, big dough.
Jim, I owe you an apology.
I owe you my life.
It wasn't God's will. - I know I owe you my life.
That doesn't change the fact that you owe us 600 grand.
You owe me a 20 and you're a dirtbag for cheating.
If you enjoyed that, then I owe it all to my amazing cast and crew, and our codirectors.
I feel like I owe them all an apology or something.
Hey, thanks for that. I owe you one.
Chapo says you owe him.
How much do we owe you?
Well, what do I owe you?
You owe us 100.
Then I owe you two bits.
That's another buffalo hide you owe me, Jack.
Do I owe you? I'll pay you back.
And Frankie is the last guy you want to owe money to.
Having Johnny owe me 40 bucks was the best money I ever spent.
Uh, to what do we owe this enormous privilege?
When you go to town, can you give the saddler the money I owe him?
That I owe it to you.
If you don't mind, we'll add that to what I owe you.
Sure, you're a celebrity and you owe it all to me.
I don't owe you nothing.
Well, how much do I owe you?
Just what you owe me.
What I owe you?
No, you don't owe me anything.
YOU SEE, I CAN'T VERY WELL GO OUT AND TELL MY FRIENDS THAT THE WHOLE HOUSE HAS BEEN ATTACHED BECAUSE I OWE A FEW FRANCS HERE AND THERE, NOW CAN I?

News and current affairs

The annual capital inflow is equal each year to the US current-account deficit - the sum of the trade deficit plus the net interest and dividends that America's government and businesses owe to the rest of the world.
Excluding them from the sphere of beings to whom we owe moral consideration can then seem arbitrary, or just plain wrong.
We owe this to the dead and to the survivors.
Just as inflation helps debtors by eroding the real value of their debts, deflation hurts them by increasing the real value of what they owe.
Rather, the rich owe their wealth solely to their own luck and effort.
How, people ask, will governments repay all of the hundreds of billions of dollars that they owe?
Similarly, after some theological debate, British Muslims have widely accepted that they owe unreserved loyalty to Britain.
If we prohibit drugs in the Olympic Games, we owe it to the athletes to deter, detect, and punish those who cheat.
It is to Phelps that we owe the theory of the natural unemployment rate - a cornerstone of modern macroeconomic theory and economic policy that Milton Friedman rediscovered a year later, albeit heuristically.
We all owe them for that.
Part of the rule of law is security of property rights - if you owe money on your house, for example, the bank can't simply take it away without following the prescribed legal process.
In the end, a mortgage holder would owe far more than the bank ever received, even though the debtor had worked, in effect, one-quarter time for the bank.
Offenders must realize the seriousness of their offences by the kind of sentences they get, but there must be hope, hope that the offender can become a useful member of society, after paying the price they owe to society.
Keynesian demand management was thus displaced by a new understanding - which we owe largely to Friedman - that pursuing fiscal discipline and price stability is the best guarantee of macroeconomic sustainability.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
We owe it to workers victimized by this recession to reinvent finance so that it works to enrich the real economy, instead of enriching only the financiers.
Since other countries' economies and jobs are also at stake, they owe it to their citizens to press the US to deliver meaningful financial reforms.
These five powerful countries owe their UN pre-eminence to the post-World War II settlement, when they were allies in victory.
Because China's government does not owe much debt to the public, the PBC sold out its holdings of government bonds in 2005.
Both sides owe each other an open and honest dialogue to help realize this outcome.
Germans insist that debtors have a moral obligation to pay what they owe and atone for their sinful profligacy.
Taxpayers across the EU must have the sense that they control what they owe - and that they will not be held responsible for the mistakes and frauds of the unholy alliance between irresponsible finance and irresponsible government.
The more we pay, the more we seem to owe and the less we have.
This deflation is bad, it is argued, because it makes it harder for debtors, especially in the troubled economies of the eurozone's periphery (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain), to pay what they owe.
Like Grass, Germans - especially the younger generations, who feel further removed from the events of WWII - are increasingly abandoning the notion that they owe it to Israel to remain its silent, steadfast supporters.
First, the falling price level would raise the real value of the debts that households and firms owe, making them poorer and reducing their willingness to spend.
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