Crossword clues for owing
owing
- Portion of Lotto win goes unpaid
- Due to be in old part of mansion
- To be paid
- To be paid nothing to fly
- Past due
- Having debts
- Not yet paid
- With bills due
- Outstanding (of debt)
- In the hole
- Having unpaid bills
- Being in debt
- Because of (with ''to'')
- Not debt-free
- Having IOUs
- Having bills to pay
- Due to be paid
- Buying on credit
- Being obligated to
- Behind, bill-wise
- Because of (with "to")
- __ to (because of)
- Behind, in a way
- Due (to)
- Because of, with "to"
- In debt
- Seeing red?
- Taking credit?
- Short, in a way
- Unpaid
- In the red
- In arrears
- ___ to (because of)
- Attributable (to)
- Indebted
- Outstanding victory defensive blunder secures
- Outstanding score for other side securing victory
- Outstanding old part of building
- Outstanding old part of house
- Outstanding golf after everyone loses
- Outstanding argument right from the start
- Old part of building is outstanding
- Yet to be paid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Owe \Owe\ ([=o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Owed ([=o]d), ( Ought ([add]t) obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Owing ([=o]"[i^]ng).] [OE. owen, awen, aghen, to have, own, have (to do), hence, owe, AS. [=a]gan to have; akin to G. eigen, a., own, Icel. eiga to have, Dan. eie, Sw. ["a]ga, Goth. ['a]igan, Skr. [imac][,c].
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To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own. [Obs.]
Thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not.
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To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory to his lieutenants.
--Milton.O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree.
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Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.
The one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
--Bible (1551).A son owes help and honor to his father.
--Holyday.Note: Owe was sometimes followed by an objective clause introduced by the infinitive. ``Ye owen to incline and bow your heart.''
--Chaucer. To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to owe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.
Owing \Ow`ing\, p. p. & a. [Used in a passive sense for owed (AS. [=a]gen. See Own).]
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Had or held under obligation of paying; due.
There is more owing her than is paid.
--Shak. Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations.
Wiktionary
still to be paid; owed as a debt. v
(present participle of owe English)
WordNet
adj. owed as a debt; "outstanding bills"; "the amount still owed"; "undischarged debts" [syn: outstanding, owed, owing(p), undischarged]
owed as a debt; "must pay what is owing"; "sleep owing to you because of a long vigil" [syn: owing(p)]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "owing".
The absolutist and patrimonial model survived in this period only with the support of a specific compromise of political forces, and its substance was eroding from the inside owing primarily to the emergence of new productive forces.
The transformation of starch into sugar, which is almost, if not entirely, suspended while the food remains in the stomach, owing to the acidity of the chyme, is resumed in the duodenum, the acid of the chyme, being neutralized by the alkaline secretions there encountered.
Those three literati were the Marquis Maffei, the Abbe Conti, and Pierre Jacques Martelli, who became enemies, according to public rumour, owing to the belief entertained by each of them that he possessed the favours of the actress, and, being men of learning, they fought with the pen.
June 23 thirtynine leaves from North Wales, which were selected owing to objects of some kind adhering to them.
Walton had been known to brag that her house was the best furnished in the street, and on this she was right When in 1916 and at the age of seventeen she had married Alee, he was just out of his time in the shipyard and owing to the war earning good money.
Inside the Snake Den all was amorphous liquid mud, owing to the copious seepage.
But the Archdeacon, owing to your zeal, my dear Mornington, has been trying to saddle me with the responsibility for the loss of this chalice Sir Giles was writing about.
With cotton, wool, wheat and mountains rich in minerals, Shensi should have been prosperous but was not, owing to opium-smoking and banditry, but fundamentally to lack of good communications.
But as the supper went on, these rigid republicans began to expand, the discourse became less measured, there were even some bursts of laughter, owing to the wine.
For an Adelaide University was in the air, and took form owing to the benefactions of Capt.
The apex is sometimes bifid or even trifid, owing to a slight separation between the terminal pointed cells.
Owing to a quarrel over renewed taxation, bourgeois support was disaffected, causing the towns to with draw their contingents.
But owing to the ill-regulated conduct of the Killyboffin hens nothing except boxty was likely to meet them below.
It was not till the early part of the 18th century that the Efik, owing to civil war with their kindred and the Ibibio, migrated from the neighbourhood of the Niger to the shores of the river Calabar, and established themselves at Ikoritungko or Creek Town, a spot 4 m.
Owing to the soft ground underneath, it was easier to excavate a hole and wall it up than to construct the regular surface cist, and the former plan was followed.