"own" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

own verbo

own + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 132
own property • own shares • own stock • own slaves • own newspapers • own hotels • own stations • own part • own estate • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(3) stock, Harrods, livestock
Kolokacji: 3
(4) slave, Fox, soul
Kolokacji: 3
(8) horse, racehorse, cattle
Kolokacji: 3
(10) bank, channel, media
Kolokacji: 3
(11) song, shop, store, outlet
Kolokacji: 4
(13) car, site, Time, computer, bus
Kolokacji: 5
(14) farm, mine, ranch
Kolokacji: 3
(16) number, majority, Paramount
Kolokacji: 3
(21) foot, dog, bar, animal
Kolokacji: 4
(22) Mills, town
Kolokacji: 2
(23) thousands, hundreds
Kolokacji: 2
1. own thousands = posiadaj tysiące own thousands
2. own hundreds = posiadaj sto own hundreds
  • The new company owned hundreds of factories, employed 168,000 workers and controlled six sizable railroad lines.
  • He owned three cotton plantations and hundreds of slaves.
  • I work for a school district that owns hundreds of MacBooks.
  • Washington, who owned hundreds of slaves, wrote privately that he favored abolition, but never proposed it publicly.
  • Some important headmen in Kandyan districts owned hundreds of animals which were spread over several villages.
  • "Once, we owned hundreds of animals, but now we have only this one sheep and two goats."
  • For breeders, a single owner may own hundreds or even thousands of animals.
  • Jefferson himself was a prominent Virginia slave holder having owned hundreds of slaves.
  • The company owned hundreds of properties around the city.
  • The cathedral owns hundreds of medieval manuscripts, and 20,000 early printed books.
(25) mile, dozens
Kolokacji: 2
(26) worth, Dior, gold
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + own
Kolokacji: 10
want to own • continue to own • use to own • allowed to own • end up owning • ...
own + preposición
Kolokacji: 36
owned by • own up • owned since • own until • own in • ...
own + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 70
privately owned • wholly owned • once owned • jointly owned • publicly owned • originally owned • formerly owned • partly owned • ...

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