owe
B2Frequent NGSL-3UK /əʊ/US /əʊ/
Meaning
verb
to have to pay somebody for something that you have already received or return money that you have borrowed
“owe somebody something, She still owes her father £3 000.”
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“that the slurs and hatreds were the same what I would not know for a long time was what I owed to a group of people I never knew in a place”
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