[əʊ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received
(e.g: they have denied they owe money to the company)


Phrases:
- owe it to oneself to do something
- owe someone a living
- owe someone one

Origin:
Old English āgan ‘own, have it as an obligation’, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit īs ‘possess, own’. Compare with ought