"owe" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "owes",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owing",
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        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I owe $50 to the phone company right now."
        },
        {
          "text": "Just remember, you owe me five dollars for the lunch I bought you."
        },
        {
          "text": "I owe John for giving me a ride home last night. (Used to mean I owe kindness in return for kindness, not that I owe money.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "I owe you a shirt since I ruined one of yours."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe something you need to pay or give it to someone because of something you have been given. For example, if I ask to borrow five dollars for lunch from a friend, then I will owe that friend five dollars. It could also be something you agree to pay (like a bill) or something you lost gambling."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Thanks for the help! I really owe you for that!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe a person, there is something you need to pay or give to that person. That is, you owe something to that person."
      ],
      "id": "simple-owe-en-verb-AoKoqJHH"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We owe as much to good luck as to our own skills."
        },
        {
          "text": "We owe a debt of gratitude to those who started this organization."
        },
        {
          "text": "Most people don't know how much they owe their parents."
        },
        {
          "text": "I would have died if you had not pulled me from the water -- I owe you my life."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe a lot to someone or something, you have something to thank that person (or thing) for."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Much of the success of early rock music owed to the ability of teenagers to buy records."
        },
        {
          "text": "Owing to the fact that I will be absent tomorrow I must do extra work today."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something owes to something else, what it owes to is what caused or the reason for doing it."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ō",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/oʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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  "word": "owe"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "owe",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owes",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "owing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ow",
        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I owe $50 to the phone company right now."
        },
        {
          "text": "Just remember, you owe me five dollars for the lunch I bought you."
        },
        {
          "text": "I owe John for giving me a ride home last night. (Used to mean I owe kindness in return for kindness, not that I owe money.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "I owe you a shirt since I ruined one of yours."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe something you need to pay or give it to someone because of something you have been given. For example, if I ask to borrow five dollars for lunch from a friend, then I will owe that friend five dollars. It could also be something you agree to pay (like a bill) or something you lost gambling."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Thanks for the help! I really owe you for that!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe a person, there is something you need to pay or give to that person. That is, you owe something to that person."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We owe as much to good luck as to our own skills."
        },
        {
          "text": "We owe a debt of gratitude to those who started this organization."
        },
        {
          "text": "Most people don't know how much they owe their parents."
        },
        {
          "text": "I would have died if you had not pulled me from the water -- I owe you my life."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you owe a lot to someone or something, you have something to thank that person (or thing) for."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Much of the success of early rock music owed to the ability of teenagers to buy records."
        },
        {
          "text": "Owing to the fact that I will be absent tomorrow I must do extra work today."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something owes to something else, what it owes to is what caused or the reason for doing it."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/əʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ō",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/oʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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