Definition of "owns" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of own. (verb)

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• "That's a bad situation for a band to be in, where the label owns the rights to your music but they're not doing anything with it."
• "Vidal doesn't dispute that the label owns the rights to the music he used."
• "Destroyer, Guv'ner, Polvo and Pipe & The Broken West (with many more to come if the label owns up to its promise of more than 25 bands)."