owning
SayOH-ningUS/ˈoʊnɪŋ/UK/ˈəʊnɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of own.
Owning property brings both rights and responsibilities.
He spent years saving toward owning a home near the coast.
Note
The -ing form does most of its work as a noun: owning a home, owning property, the costs of owning a car. With the possession meaning, the progressive sounds odd. People say they own a house, not that they are owning one. The slang meanings of own, to defeat or dominate someone, behave differently: there the progressive is natural, as in a team that is owning its rivals.
owning is a form of own
own, verb: To have something as one's rightful property, or to hold possession or control of something such as land or territory. Full entry
- Spelling
- own → owning: add -ing
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