Owing

Definition: Owing

Owing

Adjective

1. Owed as a debt; "outstanding bills"; "the amount still owed"; "undischarged debts".

2. Owed as a debt; "must pay what is owing"; "sleep owing to you because of a long vigil".

Date "owing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Due, Owing. His success was due to his honesty and energy." That is due which should be paid as a debt; that is owing which is referred to as a cause or source. "The bill is now due and payable at the gas office." "His success was owing to his honesty and energy." Source: Slips of Speech.
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Synonyms: Owing

Synonyms: outstanding (adj), owed (adj), owing(p) (adj), undischarged (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attribution	Adverb: hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to; on that account; from this cause, from that cause; thanks to, forasmuch as; whence, propter hoc.
	Adjective: attributed; Verb: attributable; Verb: referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from; owing to; (effect); putative; ecbatic.
Debt	Unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear, outstanding; past due.
Effect	Verb: be the effect of; Noun: be due to,be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from,result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon.
	Adjective: owing to; resulting from; Verb: derivable from; due to; caused by dependent upon; derived from, evolved from; derivative; hereditary; telegonous.
Payment	Adjective: paying; paid; Verb: owing nothing, out of debt, all straight; unowed, never indebted.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I hate owing you money (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)
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Domain	Title
Books	The Property Owing Democracy (reference) The Secret Life of Money: Teaching Tales of Spending, Receiving, Saving, and Owing (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea relatively low in nutrients and fishery productivity. It has become increasingly polluted owing to runoff by nutrients from waste disposal and agriculture. Catch of key species such as Black Sea anchovy has fallen, relecting environmental degradation. High exploitation levels have also depleted important stocks such as blue fin tuna and swordfish. Credit: Fisheries.		Industrial crisis: owing to loss taking, the J.P. Morgan Library is forced to go on a circulating basis. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Business enterprises at Central City, California, a boom town owing its existence to the construction work of Shasta Dam. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But when he quits this representation, this public will, and acts by his own private will, he degrades himself, and is but a single private person without power, and without will, that has any right to obedience; the members owing no obedience but to the public will of the society. (Second Treatise of Government)
Communist Manifesto	1848	Feudal Socialism Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	In conformity with Article 296, paragraph (b), the High Contracting Parties are responsible for the payment of the enemy debts owing by their nationals. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	It was owing to her persuasion, as she thought his being out in bad weather did him a great deal of harm
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She had had sweet dreams which was partly owing perhaps to her little bed being very white
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none of it for more than a month
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		It is by far the largest market owing to its market niche. (references)
		In 1999, output of the building materials industry rose steadily, owing to a stable market and improved economic conditions. (references)
		Recent mergers project a change for the 1999 financial market share, owing to the growing presence of Spanish banking in the local market. (references)
Civil Liberties	Gambia	Gaye was arrested for allegedly owing tax arrears of approximately $5,470 (93,000 dalasi). (references)
	India	The alleged assailants were state information officers, government employees owing allegiance to the Marxist government. (references)
Economic History	Costa Rica	Owing to Costa Rica's small size, an exclusive territorial contract is often preferred. (references)
Human Rights	Panama	In addition, two former Panama Defense Forces members who had been incarcerated since 1989 were placed instead under house arrest owing to health conditions. (references)
Indigenous People	Panama	For example, the Embera-Wounan in the Darien have been moved out of their reserves in increasing numbers owing to encroachment by settlers, loggers, and Colombian immigrants. (references)
Political Economy	ALGERIA	In 2001, their value should decrease to US$ 19 billion owing to lower oil prices (to a large extent gas prices are pegged to oil prices). (references)
Trade	France	Owing to the complexities of these regulations, U.S. exporters should also obtain information directly from the importer prior to shipment. (references)
Worker Rights	Panama	The Government acknowledges that it is unable to enforce some child labor provisions in rural areas, owing to insufficient staff. (references)
	Hong Kong	Owing to insufficient evidence or unwillingness of employees to act as prosecution witnesses, no prosecution action has been taken against the employers concerned. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	That aid which has been refused by the banks has not been obtained from other sources, owing to the loss of individual confidence from the frequent failures which have recently occurred in some of our principal commercial cities.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	A part of the effect, too, is doubtless owing to an increase of operatives and improvements in machinery.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Owing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.34% of the time. "Owing" is used about 181 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	98.34%	178	23,220
Noun (proper)	0.55%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	0.55%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	0.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	181	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "owing".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Joshah	N/A	Biblical	Owing
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "owing": be owing ♦ be owing to ♦ have owing ♦ owing into ♦ owing to. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "owing": car-owing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "owing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		weens (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through, Vienna, Viennese). (various references)

Albanian		që është për të paguar, i duhur (accordant, appropriate, befitting, comely, due, due to, fitting, indispensable, necessary, needful, proper, required, right), borxh (arrearage, arrears, borrowing, chalk, charge, debt, indebtedness, liability, score). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستحق الدفع (mature, paid). (various references)

Bulgarian		произлизащ от, дължим (due). (various references)

Chinese		� (Owe, Owed). (various references)

Czech		nezaplacený (outstanding, unpaid, unsettled), dlužný (due). (various references)

Danish		ioner og molekyler kan paa grund af en koncentrationsgradient naa den korroderende overflade ved molekylar diffusion (owing to a concentration gradient ions and molecules may reach the corroding surface bv molecular diffusion), chlorider forhindrer inhibering paa grund af deres gennemtraengningsevne (chlorides prevent inhibition owing to their penetrating characteristics), da molybdaen danner karbider, og da det ogsaa gaar i fast oploesning, foerer det til modningshaerdning (molybdenum causes structural hardening owing to the formation of molybdenum carbides and the fact of entering into solid solution), distraktionsluxation (joint luxation owing to distraction), efter to aars drift havarerede roerbundtet paa grund af svaere korrosionsangreb i de indsnaevrede dele af roerene (after two years of service, the tube bundle broke down owing to severe corrosion of the narrow parts of the tubes), elendigheds-alkoholisme (alcohol abuse owing to distress), blive drejet rundt af stroemmen (to turn about owing to the stream), ingen sigtbarhed (no visibility, owing to fog), ved den primaere ionisering loesrives hurtigeelektroner, som har en temmelig lang raekkevidde, og som ioniserer luften (high-speed electrons of a fairly wide range are released, owing to primary ionization, which ionize the air), neurose paa grund af manglende efterleven af adfaerdsskema (neurosis owing to failure of behaviour schemes), paa grund af det lave antal af uafhaengige slipkomponenter i systemet kan deformationen ikke vaere homogen (owing to the small number of independent slip components in the system deformation is not uniform), part,der skal betale gebyr til justitskontoret (party owing Registry charges), pneumokoniose af gigtstøv (pneumoconiosis owing to blast-furnace dust), ved binding af nitrogen i form af fintfordelte nitrider fremmer Aluminium staalets finkornethed og dermed dets modstandsdygtighed mod spaltebrud (owing to the fixation of nitrogen with aluminium to form finely divided nitrides the steel becomes more finely grained and has greater promeness to cleavage fracture), i de borholdige legeringer medfoerte bestraalingen en foroegelse i antallet af kim for revnedannelse (an increase of the density of fissure germs owing to irradiation has been found in the alloy containing boron). (various references)

Dutch		op (above, according as, according to, as, at, by, exhausted, for, from, in, inside, into, on, out of, owing to, per, spent, through, to, toward, towards, up, uphill, upon, upwards, used up, within, worn, write down), oogstverlies door de weersgesteldheid (harvest loss owing to bad weather), op grond van (owing to, through), bij de borium-houdende leaering werd gevonden, dat bestraling tot een grotere Dichtheid van de scheurkiemen leidde (an increase of the density of fissure germs owing to irradiation has been found in the alloy containing boron), bij de primaire ionisatie worden snelle elektronen met een vrij grote drach vrijgemaakt, die de lucht ioniseren (high-speed electrons of a fairly wide range are released, owing to primary ionization, which ionize the air), chloriden voorkomen door hun penetratievermogen de corrosieremmende werking (chlorides prevent inhibition owing to their penetrating characteristics), daar het aantal, in het systeem aanwezige onafhankelijke glijcomponenten te klein is, kan de vervorming niet homogeen plaats vinden (owing to the small number of independent slip components in the system deformation is not uniform), door (because of, by, by means of, during, for, for sake of, from, of, on, on account of, owing to, since, through, with), doordat aluminium de stikstof tot fijnverdeelde nitriden bindt, leidt het tot fijnkorreligheid en dus tot ongevoeligheid voor kanpbreuk (owing to the fixation of nitrogen with aluminium to form finely divided nitrides the steel becomes more finely grained and has greater promeness to cleavage fracture), doordat molybdeen carbiden vormt en eveneens in vaste oplossing gaat, werkt het veroudering in de hand (molybdenum causes structural hardening owing to the formation of molybdenum carbides and the fact of entering into solid solution), in ruil voor (owing to, through), ingevolge (according as, according to, along, as, as a result of, by, in consequence of, owing to), na twee jaar bedrijf deden zich in de pijpenbundel breuken voor in de nauwere pijpstukken tengevolge van ernstige corrosieve aanstasting (after two years of service, the tube bundle broke down owing to severe corrosion of the narrow parts of the tubes), met (about, across from, against, at, because of, by, by means of, concerning, for, for sake of, in exchange for, including, inclusively, on, on account of, opposed to, opposite, owing to, through, upon, with), uit (because of, burnt out, for, for sake of, from, on account of, out, out of, owing to, through), voor (as, at, because of, before, by, during, for, for sake of, furrow, in, in front of, in order to, like, of, on, on account of, owing to, per, previous to, through, to, toward, towards, until, upon, whereas, while, whilst, wrinkle), wegens (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through), vanwege (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through), partij die griffierechten schuldig is (party owing Registry charges), potdicht (no visibility, owing to fog), rondgaan (be about, be abroad, circulate, circumvent, go around), rondslaan (to turn about owing to the stream), rondvallen (to turn about owing to the stream), rondvallen door de stroom (to turn about owing to the stream), ten gevolge van (as a result of, in consequence of, owing to), ionen en moleculen kunnen tengevolge van een concentratieverschil door moleculaire diffusie het corroderend oppervlak bereiken (owing to a concentration gradient ions and molecules may reach the corroding surface bv molecular diffusion). (various references)

Esperanto		sekve de (as a result of, in consequence of, owing to), pro (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

Faeroese		vegna (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

Finnish		maksamaton (unpaid, unsettled). (various references)

French		endetté, dû (owed). (various references)

Frisian		fanwegen (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

German		verdankend, schuldend. (various references)

Greek		οφειλόμενοσ (due). (various references)

Hebrew		חיב (bound, indebted, must, should, supposed). (various references)

Hungarian		tartozó (belonging, incumbent, irrelevant, pertinent, phenomenal, sikh, textual), köszönhetõ valakinek, köszönhető, járó (ambulatory, consequential, goer, horsy, walkway), fizetendõ, fizetendő, betudható. (various references)

Icelandic		fyrir (because of, before, for, for sake of, in front of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

Italian		dovuto (due, had to). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		病害 (damage owing to disease or blight), お�"�で (because of you, owing to you, thanks to you), 故有って (for a certain reason, owing to unavoidable circumstances), 御陰 (thanks or owing to), 御�"�で (because of you, owing to you, thanks to you), 忌引き (absence owing to a death in the family). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おか�'で (because of you, owing to you, thanks to you), おか�' (assistance, backing, thanks or owing to), きびき (absence from workdue to mourning, absence owing to a death in the family), びょうがい (damage owing to disease or blight), ゆえあって (for a certain reason, owing to unavoidable circumstances). (various references)

Korean		빚지� 있음. (various references)

Manx		mooie (abroad, exterior, external, extraneous, out, outboard, outdoors, outer, outstanding, outward, without), lhiastynagh (indebted), lhiastyn (owe). (various references)

Norwegian		for (because of, for, for sake of, lining, on account of, owing to, through, too). (various references)

Papiamen		debí na (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through), a kousa di (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

Pig Latin		owingay.(various references)

Portuguese		que é devido, devido (due, overdue, payable). (various references)

Romanian		datorat (due, owed). (various references)

Russian		обязанный (beholden, bound to, duty-bound, incumbent, indebted, liable, obliged to, owed, under obligation to), причитающийся (due), доверять обязанный, должный (due, just). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dužan (beholden, due, indebted, obliged). (various references)

Spanish		deudor (debtor), debido (due, right). (various references)

Swedish		som skall betalas (due). (various references)

Tagalog		dahil sa (because of, for, for sake of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเป็นหนี้. (various references)

Turkish		borçlu (beholden, debtor, in hock, in the red, indebted, obligor, payer), ödenmemiş (back, dishonoured, outstanding, undischarged, unhonored, unhonoured, unpaid, unredeemed, unsatisfied, unsettled). (various references)

Ukrainian		несплачений (outstanding), належний (appropriate, appurtenant, becoming, competent, correct, due, meet, opportune, respectable, seemly), зобов'язаний комусь, заборгований (indebted). (various references)

Vietnamese		vì (virtue), do bởi (dint, due), còn phải trả nợ nhờ có. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	debita, debitam, debitos, debitum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "owing": allowing, arrowing, avowing, bellowing, beshadowing, besnowing, bestowing, bestrowing, billowing, blowing, borrowing, bowing, bowwowing, burrowing, checkrowing, chowing, cornrowing, cowing, crowing, disallowing, disavowing, disendowing, dowing, elbowing, embowing, endowing, escrowing, fallowing, farrowing, fellowing, flowing, flyblowing, following, foreknowing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, furbelowing, furrowing, glassblowing, glowing, growing, hallowing, harrowing, hollowing, indowing, ingrowing, jowing, knowing, kotowing, kowtowing, lowing. (additional references)
	Words containing "owing": borrowings, bowingly, bowings, flowingly, followings, glassblowings, glowingly, growingly, knowinger, knowingest, knowingly, knowingness, knowingnesses, knowings, lowings, mowings, rowings, showings, unknowingly, unknowings, whistleblowings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Owing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dwing, ewingi, fowing, oding, ohing, Ojwanga, Olwig, oping, Orwig, osing, Oswyn, oving, owan, Owana, oweing, owi, owings, owino, owling, ownio, owon, owsin, oxing, woin, yowing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "owing" (pronounced ō"ing)
3	ō" i ng	bestowing, blowing, bowing, crowing, easygoing, flowing, foregoing, forgoing, glowing, going, growing, hoeing, knowing, lowing, plateauing, rowing, sewing, showing, slowing, snowing, sowing, throwing, toeing, towing, undergoing, unknowing.
2	-i ng	anguishing, annealing, annexing, annotating, announcing, annoying, answering, antagonizing, anticipating, antidumping, antismoking, aping, apologizing, appalling, appealing, appearing, appeasing, appetizing, applauding, applying, appointing, apportioning, appraising, appreciating, apprehending, approaching, appropriating, approving, approximating, arbitraging, arbitrating, arching, arguing, arising, abounding, abrogating, absolving, absorbing, abstaining, abusing, abutting, acceding, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accessing, acclaiming, accommodating, accompanying, accomplishing, according, abandoning, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, abiding, abolishing, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accruing, accumulating, accusing, achieving, aching, acknowledging, acquiescing, acquiring, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adding, addressing, adhering, adjoining, adjourning, adjudicating, adjusting, administering, administrating, admiring, admitting, admonishing, adopting, adoring, advancing, advertising, advising, advocating, affecting, affiliating, affirming, affixing, afflicting, affording, aggrandizing, aggravating, aging, agitating, agonizing, agreeing, aiding, ailing, aiming, airing, airlifting, alarming, alerting, alienating, aligning, allaying, alleging, alleviating, allocating, allotting, allowing, alluding, alluring, allying, altering, alternating, amassing, amazing, ambling, ambushing, amending, amortizing, amounting, amplifying, amusing, analyzing, anchoring, angering, angling, arming, arousing, arranging, arresting, arriving, articulating, ascending, ascertaining, asking, aspiring, assailing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-w"
	-1 letter: gown, wing, wino.
	-2 letters: gin, ion, nog, now, own, wig, win, wog, won.
	-3 letters: go, in, no, on, ow, wo.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-w"
	+1 letter: bowing, cowing, dowing, jowing, lowing, mowing, owning, rowing, sowing, towing, vowing, wigeon, wooing, wowing, yowing.
	+2 letters: avowing, blowing, bowings, bowling, bowsing, chowing, cowling, crowing, downing, dowsing, flowing, fowling, glowing, gowning, growing, howking, howling, ingrown, knowing, lowings, meowing, mowings, plowing, rowings, scowing, showing, slowing, snowing, stowing, trowing, wendigo, whoring, widgeon, wigeons, windigo, wingbow, wolfing, wonning, wonting, wooding, woofing, wording, working, worming, wotting, yowling.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
owing	21
owing the irs	8
owing mill	2
mahoney owing	2
mall mill owing	2
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Owing

Definition: Owing

Owing

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Owing

Synonyms: Owing

Synonyms within Context: Owing

Attribution

Debt

Effect

Payment

Crosswords: Owing

Modern Usage: Owing

Screenplays

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Books

Photo Album: Owing

Historic Usage: Owing

John Locke

Communist Manifesto

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Owing

Emma

Austen, Jane

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Owing

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Owing

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Owing

Derived & Related Names: Owing

Expression: Owing

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Owing

Modern Translation: Owing

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Derivations & Misspellings: Owing