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The legal fiction that a thing belongs to you and not to taxes.
means To possess something as your property, with the right to use, sell, or hoard it; also, to admit something fully or to dominate someone completely.
from From Old English agen, meaning possessed, past participle of agan, to have — the same root that quietly gave us owe, because owning and owing were always two faces of one coin.
Owe twinOwn and owe share one ancient root.
Slang flipTo own someone means to defeat utterly.
Own upConfessing is just owning your mistake.