1
[ verb ] be obliged to pay or repay

Used in print

(Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)

If your computation on Form_1040 or Form_1040_A shows you owe additional tax , it should be remitted with your return unless you owe less_than $ 1 , in which case it is forgiven .

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chalk_up

2
[ verb ] be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense

Examples

"This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"

Used in print

(The Providence Journal...)

There is hardly_a jazz guitarist in the business today who does n't owe something to Django .

And Django owed much to Louis_Armstrong .

(Ernest Becker, Zen: A Rational Critique. New York: W.W....)

Actually , Zen owes more to Chinese Quietism than it does to Mahayana_Buddhism .

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repose_on

3
[ verb ] be in debt

Examples

"She owes me $200" "The thesis owes much to his adviser"

Used in print

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

Much of the important individual and social action has been owing to religious incentives .

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be mortgage

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