Definition of owe in English:

owe

verb əʊoʊ

[with object]

1Have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received.
欠
they have denied they owe money to the company
他们否认欠公司钱。
with two objects you owe me £19.50 for the electricity bill
你欠我19.50英镑的电费。
Example sentencesExamples
- There was no tax due on the money, but I may owe tax on the interest accrued.
- Territory Housing doesn't want to disclose how much money is currently owed by tenants.
- On June 12, he sent his victim a letter asking her to pop round the following day so that he could repay some money he owed her.
- So even if a worker owes no income tax, the EITC effectively defrays her payroll taxes.
- She does not deny owing the money, it is long overdue and it is up to her how she comes up it.
- A taxpayer owing federal taxes should first took at ways to pay the liability in full.
- If you collected unemployment benefits last year, you'll probably owe taxes on the money.
- There's no need to hold onto your tax return just because you owe the government money.
- These men do low wage and often seasonal work, and owe large sums of money which most could never hope to pay off.
- Although the man did owe small sums of money, there is no evidence to suggest that he was heavily in debt.
- But the company went bankrupt soon after, and several local businessmen were left owing large sums of money.
- A householder owing money will receive a written reminder and, if they ignore the letter, can expect a court summons.
- If you owe money, you should have received a request for payment telling you the required amount.
- Also, students owing the university money will not receive any form of results unless the debt is paid in full.
- He denied owing the council tax and said the case had gone to appeal in the High Court in London, meaning there was no reason for him to attend Chippenham Magistrates' Court.
- My request is simple - I want to know what I am supposed to have received that I owe money for.
- ‘We have now repaid all our loans, and we owe no money at all to anyone,’ says Robin.
- Without a written promissory note, your brother could deny he owes the money and instead claim your father told him he could make the charges.
- Satta needs the next prediction to be correct because he owes a large sum of money to some shady characters.
- The sale proceeds are often used to repay existing debts owed by the consumer.
Synonyms
be in debt (to), be indebted (to), be in arrears (to), be under an obligation (to), be obligated (to), be beholden to
be in debit, be overdrawn (by), be in the red
informal be in debt to the tune of
1. 1.1 Owe something, especially money, to.
  欠…东西（尤指钱）
  I owe you for the taxi
  我欠你出租车费。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Subcontractors say Williams owes them for Harlem work.
  Brigget was nowhere to be found, so I helped myself to a mouth-wateringly good cherry tomato. Man, was it good! Brigget, I owe you for a tomato. Okay, okay… I owe you for two tomatoes!
2. 1.2 Be under a moral obligation to give someone (gratitude, respect, etc.)
  应该给予（感激、尊敬等）
  I owe it to him to explain what's happened
  我应该向他解释所发生的事。
  with two objects I owe you an apology
  Example sentencesExamples
  For living out so admirably its values of democratic inclusion as well as of excellence, the college owes him an enormous debt of gratitude.
  We owe Debra an immeasurable debt of gratitude for blowing the whistle.
  Thank you very kindly; if you care to drop me a line telling me who you are, it would be nice to know to whom I owe my gratitude.
  We owe deep gratitude to those nearby who did what they could without adequate resources.
  He did not owe any allegiance to Lyra; he could do as he wished.
  It is to each and every one of them, the known and the unknown, that we owe our gratitude.
  British cycling has rarely had it so good, and for that a debt of gratitude is owed to Manchester and the National Cycling Centre.
  All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters.
  Those defendants did owe to the claimant a duty of care.
  Respect is owed to Fast Forward for being a publication with a degree of journalistic integrity.
  Over coffee the Queen asked him ‘To what do we owe the unexpected honour of your visit?’
  So as much as anything, I think I owe him the respect of leaving it alone if he doesn't want to talk about it.
  For many people, as I said, the respect we owe nature is respect for God conceived as the divine creator.
  In India, however, she was an empress, a supreme sovereign to whom other sovereigns owed homage.
  We owe him some respect for that and we need to help him make that affirmative case for change.
  The world certainly owes the Prime Minister a great debt of gratitude for the immense effort he put into this.
  I believe society generally owes them a debt of gratitude.
  It might be better described as being about obligations of gratitude, or about the deference owed by a creature to its creator, or both.
  The impersonality of market forces hides their continued presence and enables the artist to think of himself as a self-reliant, independent entrepreneur owing deference to no man.
  The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant.
3. 1.3owe something to Have something because of.
  champagne houses owe their success to brand image
  香槟酒店的成功要归功于品牌形象。
  I owe my life to you
  我应该感谢你救了我的命。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Judge owes his life to Tuskegee airmen.
  When asked ‘What do you owe your parents?’ his reply was ‘A long talking-to’.

Phrases

owe it to oneself (to do something)

Need to do something to protect one's own interests.
为了自己有必要做某事
you owe it to yourself to take care of your body
为了你自己你必须爱护你的身体。
Example sentencesExamples
- However, hopeless though our problems may seem, we owe it to ourselves to at least attempt to create the kind of history that we want to see.
- And we darn sure pay the price. We owe it to ourselves and everything we hold dear to see past the propaganda.
- Any commentator owes it to themselves to at the very least to read this book.
- You owe it to yourself and to thousands of other people whose lives could be saved.
- The ‘Personal Information Economy’ is fast becoming a reality, and we owe it to ourselves to protect it as best we can.
- Anyone unfamiliar with those horrific events owes it to himself or herself to find out more.
- You owe it to yourself and everyone who loves you.
- And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself.
- We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stick with that proven path to success.
- We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to make the best of it.

owe someone one

informal Feel indebted to someone.
〈非正式〉觉得应感激某人
thanks, I owe you one for this
谢了，为这个我欠你的情。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We owe them one,’ said the 19-year-old striker.
- About to argue back, Caelyn stopped herself and figured that she owed him one.
- Thanks, I owe you one, here let me buy you a drink
- Maybe he thought he owed us one from the previous year.
- I know I owe them one for getting me inside the lovely silver encampment.
- Party leaders will owe her one when she decides to make her political comeback.
- ‘He owes me one,’ said the Scot, who had to pick up Beckford at dawn at the airport after the Jamaican had missed his flight the night before.
- I owed him one for being at the right place at the right time.
- I treated Numair well at first only because he saved my life and I owed him one; he earned my respect.
- I owed you one for that incident last year anyway.

owe someone a living

Used to express disapproval of someone who expects to receive financial support or other benefits without doing any work.
用于对指望不劳而获的人表示不满…应该白白养活某人
they think the world owes them a living
他们认为这个世界应该白白养活他们。
Example sentencesExamples
- At some point, this talk about exporting ‘your job’ just amounts to a nicer or more subtle way of saying that the world owes you a living.
- And never start to believe that the world owes you a living.
- We seem to be moving away from self-reliance to an attitude that the world owes us a living.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
- We contribute very little to our society and we believe our society owes us a living.
- Too many people believe the world owes them a living.
- The Protestant Work Ethic seems to have disappeared forever - so many people seem to think that the world owes them a living.
- What else do you expect from a guy who thinks the world owes him a living?
- But this may serve as a wake-up call to this generation of complacent male teenage slackers that think the world owes them a living - smell the coffee, lads, you've got to work for a living nowadays.
- There is a notion that the world owes us a living by virtue of our creativity.

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 ought¹.

Rhymes

aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou

Definition of owe in US English:

owe

verbōoʊ

[with object]

1Have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received.
欠
they have denied they owe money to the company
他们否认欠公司钱。
with two objects I owe you 25 cents
Example sentencesExamples
- My request is simple - I want to know what I am supposed to have received that I owe money for.
- Territory Housing doesn't want to disclose how much money is currently owed by tenants.
- A householder owing money will receive a written reminder and, if they ignore the letter, can expect a court summons.
- ‘We have now repaid all our loans, and we owe no money at all to anyone,’ says Robin.
- There was no tax due on the money, but I may owe tax on the interest accrued.
- Also, students owing the university money will not receive any form of results unless the debt is paid in full.
- He denied owing the council tax and said the case had gone to appeal in the High Court in London, meaning there was no reason for him to attend Chippenham Magistrates' Court.
- Satta needs the next prediction to be correct because he owes a large sum of money to some shady characters.
- If you owe money, you should have received a request for payment telling you the required amount.
- She does not deny owing the money, it is long overdue and it is up to her how she comes up it.
- The sale proceeds are often used to repay existing debts owed by the consumer.
- So even if a worker owes no income tax, the EITC effectively defrays her payroll taxes.
- Although the man did owe small sums of money, there is no evidence to suggest that he was heavily in debt.
- On June 12, he sent his victim a letter asking her to pop round the following day so that he could repay some money he owed her.
- Without a written promissory note, your brother could deny he owes the money and instead claim your father told him he could make the charges.
- If you collected unemployment benefits last year, you'll probably owe taxes on the money.
- A taxpayer owing federal taxes should first took at ways to pay the liability in full.
- But the company went bankrupt soon after, and several local businessmen were left owing large sums of money.
- There's no need to hold onto your tax return just because you owe the government money.
- These men do low wage and often seasonal work, and owe large sums of money which most could never hope to pay off.
Synonyms
be in debt, be in debt to, be indebted, be indebted to, be in arrears, be in arrears to, be under an obligation, be under an obligation to, be obligated, be obligated to, be beholden to
1. 1.1 Owe something, especially money, to (someone)
  欠…东西（尤指钱）
  I owe you for the taxi
  我欠你出租车费。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Subcontractors say Williams owes them for Harlem work.
  Brigget was nowhere to be found, so I helped myself to a mouth-wateringly good cherry tomato. Man, was it good! Brigget, I owe you for a tomato. Okay, okay… I owe you for two tomatoes!
2. 1.2 Be under a moral obligation to give someone (gratitude, respect, etc.)
  应该给予（感激、尊敬等）
  I owe it to him to explain what's happened
  我应该向他解释所发生的事。
  with two objects I owe you an apology
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thank you very kindly; if you care to drop me a line telling me who you are, it would be nice to know to whom I owe my gratitude.
  I believe society generally owes them a debt of gratitude.
  It is to each and every one of them, the known and the unknown, that we owe our gratitude.
  For living out so admirably its values of democratic inclusion as well as of excellence, the college owes him an enormous debt of gratitude.
  Those defendants did owe to the claimant a duty of care.
  The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant.
  So as much as anything, I think I owe him the respect of leaving it alone if he doesn't want to talk about it.
  All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters.
  He did not owe any allegiance to Lyra; he could do as he wished.
  It might be better described as being about obligations of gratitude, or about the deference owed by a creature to its creator, or both.
  British cycling has rarely had it so good, and for that a debt of gratitude is owed to Manchester and the National Cycling Centre.
  For many people, as I said, the respect we owe nature is respect for God conceived as the divine creator.
  The world certainly owes the Prime Minister a great debt of gratitude for the immense effort he put into this.
  Respect is owed to Fast Forward for being a publication with a degree of journalistic integrity.
  We owe him some respect for that and we need to help him make that affirmative case for change.
  We owe Debra an immeasurable debt of gratitude for blowing the whistle.
  In India, however, she was an empress, a supreme sovereign to whom other sovereigns owed homage.
  The impersonality of market forces hides their continued presence and enables the artist to think of himself as a self-reliant, independent entrepreneur owing deference to no man.
  Over coffee the Queen asked him ‘To what do we owe the unexpected honour of your visit?’
  We owe deep gratitude to those nearby who did what they could without adequate resources.
3. 1.3 Be indebted to someone or something for (something)
  因…而感激
  I owe my life to you
  我应该感谢你救了我的命。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Judge owes his life to Tuskegee airmen.
  When asked ‘What do you owe your parents?’ his reply was ‘A long talking-to’.

Phrases

owe it to oneself (to do something)

Need to do something to protect one's own interests.
为了自己有必要做某事
you owe it to yourself to take care of your body
为了你自己你必须爱护你的身体。
Example sentencesExamples
- We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stick with that proven path to success.
- You owe it to yourself and to thousands of other people whose lives could be saved.
- However, hopeless though our problems may seem, we owe it to ourselves to at least attempt to create the kind of history that we want to see.
- And we darn sure pay the price. We owe it to ourselves and everything we hold dear to see past the propaganda.
- Anyone unfamiliar with those horrific events owes it to himself or herself to find out more.
- Any commentator owes it to themselves to at the very least to read this book.
- You owe it to yourself and everyone who loves you.
- And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself.
- We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to make the best of it.
- The ‘Personal Information Economy’ is fast becoming a reality, and we owe it to ourselves to protect it as best we can.

owe someone one

informal Feel indebted to someone for a favor done.
因…而感激
thanks, I owe you one for this
谢了，为这个我欠你的情。
Example sentencesExamples
- I treated Numair well at first only because he saved my life and I owed him one; he earned my respect.
- ‘We owe them one,’ said the 19-year-old striker.
- Maybe he thought he owed us one from the previous year.
- ‘He owes me one,’ said the Scot, who had to pick up Beckford at dawn at the airport after the Jamaican had missed his flight the night before.
- Thanks, I owe you one, here let me buy you a drink
- I know I owe them one for getting me inside the lovely silver encampment.
- Party leaders will owe her one when she decides to make her political comeback.
- I owed him one for being at the right place at the right time.
- I owed you one for that incident last year anyway.
- About to argue back, Caelyn stopped herself and figured that she owed him one.

owe someone a living

Used to express disapproval of someone who expects to receive financial support or other benefits without doing any work.
用于对指望不劳而获的人表示不满…应该白白养活某人
they think the world owes them a living
他们认为这个世界应该白白养活他们。
Example sentencesExamples
- We contribute very little to our society and we believe our society owes us a living.
- The Protestant Work Ethic seems to have disappeared forever - so many people seem to think that the world owes them a living.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
- And never start to believe that the world owes you a living.
- But this may serve as a wake-up call to this generation of complacent male teenage slackers that think the world owes them a living - smell the coffee, lads, you've got to work for a living nowadays.
- What else do you expect from a guy who thinks the world owes him a living?
- There is a notion that the world owes us a living by virtue of our creativity.
- We seem to be moving away from self-reliance to an attitude that the world owes us a living.
- At some point, this talk about exporting ‘your job’ just amounts to a nicer or more subtle way of saying that the world owes you a living.
- Too many people believe the world owes them a living.

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.

词汇	owe
释义	Definition of owe in English: owe verb əʊoʊ [with object] 1Have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received. 欠 they have denied they owe money to the company 他们否认欠公司钱。 with two objects you owe me £19.50 for the electricity bill 你欠我19.50英镑的电费。 Example sentencesExamples There was no tax due on the money, but I may owe tax on the interest accrued. Territory Housing doesn't want to disclose how much money is currently owed by tenants. On June 12, he sent his victim a letter asking her to pop round the following day so that he could repay some money he owed her. So even if a worker owes no income tax, the EITC effectively defrays her payroll taxes. She does not deny owing the money, it is long overdue and it is up to her how she comes up it. A taxpayer owing federal taxes should first took at ways to pay the liability in full. If you collected unemployment benefits last year, you'll probably owe taxes on the money. There's no need to hold onto your tax return just because you owe the government money. These men do low wage and often seasonal work, and owe large sums of money which most could never hope to pay off. Although the man did owe small sums of money, there is no evidence to suggest that he was heavily in debt. But the company went bankrupt soon after, and several local businessmen were left owing large sums of money. A householder owing money will receive a written reminder and, if they ignore the letter, can expect a court summons. If you owe money, you should have received a request for payment telling you the required amount. Also, students owing the university money will not receive any form of results unless the debt is paid in full. He denied owing the council tax and said the case had gone to appeal in the High Court in London, meaning there was no reason for him to attend Chippenham Magistrates' Court. My request is simple - I want to know what I am supposed to have received that I owe money for. ‘We have now repaid all our loans, and we owe no money at all to anyone,’ says Robin. Without a written promissory note, your brother could deny he owes the money and instead claim your father told him he could make the charges. Satta needs the next prediction to be correct because he owes a large sum of money to some shady characters. The sale proceeds are often used to repay existing debts owed by the consumer. Synonyms be in debt (to), be indebted (to), be in arrears (to), be under an obligation (to), be obligated (to), be beholden to be in debit, be overdrawn (by), be in the red informal be in debt to the tune of 1.1 Owe something, especially money, to. 欠…东西（尤指钱） I owe you for the taxi 我欠你出租车费。 Example sentencesExamples Subcontractors say Williams owes them for Harlem work. Brigget was nowhere to be found, so I helped myself to a mouth-wateringly good cherry tomato. Man, was it good! Brigget, I owe you for a tomato. Okay, okay… I owe you for two tomatoes! 1.2 Be under a moral obligation to give someone (gratitude, respect, etc.) 应该给予（感激、尊敬等） I owe it to him to explain what's happened 我应该向他解释所发生的事。 with two objects I owe you an apology Example sentencesExamples For living out so admirably its values of democratic inclusion as well as of excellence, the college owes him an enormous debt of gratitude. We owe Debra an immeasurable debt of gratitude for blowing the whistle. Thank you very kindly; if you care to drop me a line telling me who you are, it would be nice to know to whom I owe my gratitude. We owe deep gratitude to those nearby who did what they could without adequate resources. He did not owe any allegiance to Lyra; he could do as he wished. It is to each and every one of them, the known and the unknown, that we owe our gratitude. British cycling has rarely had it so good, and for that a debt of gratitude is owed to Manchester and the National Cycling Centre. All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters. Those defendants did owe to the claimant a duty of care. Respect is owed to Fast Forward for being a publication with a degree of journalistic integrity. Over coffee the Queen asked him ‘To what do we owe the unexpected honour of your visit?’ So as much as anything, I think I owe him the respect of leaving it alone if he doesn't want to talk about it. For many people, as I said, the respect we owe nature is respect for God conceived as the divine creator. In India, however, she was an empress, a supreme sovereign to whom other sovereigns owed homage. We owe him some respect for that and we need to help him make that affirmative case for change. The world certainly owes the Prime Minister a great debt of gratitude for the immense effort he put into this. I believe society generally owes them a debt of gratitude. It might be better described as being about obligations of gratitude, or about the deference owed by a creature to its creator, or both. The impersonality of market forces hides their continued presence and enables the artist to think of himself as a self-reliant, independent entrepreneur owing deference to no man. The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant. 1.3owe something to Have something because of. champagne houses owe their success to brand image 香槟酒店的成功要归功于品牌形象。 I owe my life to you 我应该感谢你救了我的命。 Example sentencesExamples Judge owes his life to Tuskegee airmen. When asked ‘What do you owe your parents?’ his reply was ‘A long talking-to’. Phrases owe it to oneself (to do something) Need to do something to protect one's own interests. 为了自己有必要做某事 you owe it to yourself to take care of your body 为了你自己你必须爱护你的身体。 Example sentencesExamples However, hopeless though our problems may seem, we owe it to ourselves to at least attempt to create the kind of history that we want to see. And we darn sure pay the price. We owe it to ourselves and everything we hold dear to see past the propaganda. Any commentator owes it to themselves to at the very least to read this book. You owe it to yourself and to thousands of other people whose lives could be saved. The ‘Personal Information Economy’ is fast becoming a reality, and we owe it to ourselves to protect it as best we can. Anyone unfamiliar with those horrific events owes it to himself or herself to find out more. You owe it to yourself and everyone who loves you. And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stick with that proven path to success. We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to make the best of it. owe someone one informal Feel indebted to someone. 〈非正式〉觉得应感激某人 thanks, I owe you one for this 谢了，为这个我欠你的情。 Example sentencesExamples ‘We owe them one,’ said the 19-year-old striker. About to argue back, Caelyn stopped herself and figured that she owed him one. Thanks, I owe you one, here let me buy you a drink Maybe he thought he owed us one from the previous year. I know I owe them one for getting me inside the lovely silver encampment. Party leaders will owe her one when she decides to make her political comeback. ‘He owes me one,’ said the Scot, who had to pick up Beckford at dawn at the airport after the Jamaican had missed his flight the night before. I owed him one for being at the right place at the right time. I treated Numair well at first only because he saved my life and I owed him one; he earned my respect. I owed you one for that incident last year anyway. owe someone a living Used to express disapproval of someone who expects to receive financial support or other benefits without doing any work. 用于对指望不劳而获的人表示不满…应该白白养活某人 they think the world owes them a living 他们认为这个世界应该白白养活他们。 Example sentencesExamples At some point, this talk about exporting ‘your job’ just amounts to a nicer or more subtle way of saying that the world owes you a living. And never start to believe that the world owes you a living. We seem to be moving away from self-reliance to an attitude that the world owes us a living. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. We contribute very little to our society and we believe our society owes us a living. Too many people believe the world owes them a living. The Protestant Work Ethic seems to have disappeared forever - so many people seem to think that the world owes them a living. What else do you expect from a guy who thinks the world owes him a living? But this may serve as a wake-up call to this generation of complacent male teenage slackers that think the world owes them a living - smell the coffee, lads, you've got to work for a living nowadays. There is a notion that the world owes us a living by virtue of our creativity. 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 ought¹. Rhymes aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou verb.1 phr. Definition of owe in US English: owe verbōoʊ [with object] 1Have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received. 欠 they have denied they owe money to the company 他们否认欠公司钱。 with two objects I owe you 25 cents Example sentencesExamples My request is simple - I want to know what I am supposed to have received that I owe money for. Territory Housing doesn't want to disclose how much money is currently owed by tenants. A householder owing money will receive a written reminder and, if they ignore the letter, can expect a court summons. ‘We have now repaid all our loans, and we owe no money at all to anyone,’ says Robin. There was no tax due on the money, but I may owe tax on the interest accrued. Also, students owing the university money will not receive any form of results unless the debt is paid in full. He denied owing the council tax and said the case had gone to appeal in the High Court in London, meaning there was no reason for him to attend Chippenham Magistrates' Court. Satta needs the next prediction to be correct because he owes a large sum of money to some shady characters. If you owe money, you should have received a request for payment telling you the required amount. She does not deny owing the money, it is long overdue and it is up to her how she comes up it. The sale proceeds are often used to repay existing debts owed by the consumer. So even if a worker owes no income tax, the EITC effectively defrays her payroll taxes. Although the man did owe small sums of money, there is no evidence to suggest that he was heavily in debt. On June 12, he sent his victim a letter asking her to pop round the following day so that he could repay some money he owed her. Without a written promissory note, your brother could deny he owes the money and instead claim your father told him he could make the charges. If you collected unemployment benefits last year, you'll probably owe taxes on the money. A taxpayer owing federal taxes should first took at ways to pay the liability in full. But the company went bankrupt soon after, and several local businessmen were left owing large sums of money. There's no need to hold onto your tax return just because you owe the government money. These men do low wage and often seasonal work, and owe large sums of money which most could never hope to pay off. Synonyms be in debt, be in debt to, be indebted, be indebted to, be in arrears, be in arrears to, be under an obligation, be under an obligation to, be obligated, be obligated to, be beholden to 1.1 Owe something, especially money, to (someone) 欠…东西（尤指钱） I owe you for the taxi 我欠你出租车费。 Example sentencesExamples Subcontractors say Williams owes them for Harlem work. Brigget was nowhere to be found, so I helped myself to a mouth-wateringly good cherry tomato. Man, was it good! Brigget, I owe you for a tomato. Okay, okay… I owe you for two tomatoes! 1.2 Be under a moral obligation to give someone (gratitude, respect, etc.) 应该给予（感激、尊敬等） I owe it to him to explain what's happened 我应该向他解释所发生的事。 with two objects I owe you an apology Example sentencesExamples Thank you very kindly; if you care to drop me a line telling me who you are, it would be nice to know to whom I owe my gratitude. I believe society generally owes them a debt of gratitude. It is to each and every one of them, the known and the unknown, that we owe our gratitude. For living out so admirably its values of democratic inclusion as well as of excellence, the college owes him an enormous debt of gratitude. Those defendants did owe to the claimant a duty of care. The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant. So as much as anything, I think I owe him the respect of leaving it alone if he doesn't want to talk about it. All members of the society were responsible for their inferiors and owed deference to their betters. He did not owe any allegiance to Lyra; he could do as he wished. It might be better described as being about obligations of gratitude, or about the deference owed by a creature to its creator, or both. British cycling has rarely had it so good, and for that a debt of gratitude is owed to Manchester and the National Cycling Centre. For many people, as I said, the respect we owe nature is respect for God conceived as the divine creator. The world certainly owes the Prime Minister a great debt of gratitude for the immense effort he put into this. Respect is owed to Fast Forward for being a publication with a degree of journalistic integrity. We owe him some respect for that and we need to help him make that affirmative case for change. We owe Debra an immeasurable debt of gratitude for blowing the whistle. In India, however, she was an empress, a supreme sovereign to whom other sovereigns owed homage. The impersonality of market forces hides their continued presence and enables the artist to think of himself as a self-reliant, independent entrepreneur owing deference to no man. Over coffee the Queen asked him ‘To what do we owe the unexpected honour of your visit?’ We owe deep gratitude to those nearby who did what they could without adequate resources. 1.3 Be indebted to someone or something for (something) 因…而感激 I owe my life to you 我应该感谢你救了我的命。 Example sentencesExamples Judge owes his life to Tuskegee airmen. When asked ‘What do you owe your parents?’ his reply was ‘A long talking-to’. Phrases owe it to oneself (to do something) Need to do something to protect one's own interests. 为了自己有必要做某事 you owe it to yourself to take care of your body 为了你自己你必须爱护你的身体。 Example sentencesExamples We owe it to ourselves and future generations to stick with that proven path to success. You owe it to yourself and to thousands of other people whose lives could be saved. However, hopeless though our problems may seem, we owe it to ourselves to at least attempt to create the kind of history that we want to see. And we darn sure pay the price. We owe it to ourselves and everything we hold dear to see past the propaganda. Anyone unfamiliar with those horrific events owes it to himself or herself to find out more. Any commentator owes it to themselves to at the very least to read this book. You owe it to yourself and everyone who loves you. And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself. We owe it to ourselves and to future generations to make the best of it. The ‘Personal Information Economy’ is fast becoming a reality, and we owe it to ourselves to protect it as best we can. owe someone one informal Feel indebted to someone for a favor done. 因…而感激 thanks, I owe you one for this 谢了，为这个我欠你的情。 Example sentencesExamples I treated Numair well at first only because he saved my life and I owed him one; he earned my respect. ‘We owe them one,’ said the 19-year-old striker. Maybe he thought he owed us one from the previous year. ‘He owes me one,’ said the Scot, who had to pick up Beckford at dawn at the airport after the Jamaican had missed his flight the night before. Thanks, I owe you one, here let me buy you a drink I know I owe them one for getting me inside the lovely silver encampment. Party leaders will owe her one when she decides to make her political comeback. I owed him one for being at the right place at the right time. I owed you one for that incident last year anyway. About to argue back, Caelyn stopped herself and figured that she owed him one. owe someone a living Used to express disapproval of someone who expects to receive financial support or other benefits without doing any work. 用于对指望不劳而获的人表示不满…应该白白养活某人 they think the world owes them a living 他们认为这个世界应该白白养活他们。 Example sentencesExamples We contribute very little to our society and we believe our society owes us a living. The Protestant Work Ethic seems to have disappeared forever - so many people seem to think that the world owes them a living. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. And never start to believe that the world owes you a living. But this may serve as a wake-up call to this generation of complacent male teenage slackers that think the world owes them a living - smell the coffee, lads, you've got to work for a living nowadays. What else do you expect from a guy who thinks the world owes him a living? There is a notion that the world owes us a living by virtue of our creativity. We seem to be moving away from self-reliance to an attitude that the world owes us a living. At some point, this talk about exporting ‘your job’ just amounts to a nicer or more subtle way of saying that the world owes you a living. Too many people believe the world owes them a living. 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. verb.1 phr.
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