Own vs. Posses

Of or belonging to oneself or itself

A group of civilians called upon by a sheriff or other law enforcement official to assist temporarily in preserving the peace or pursuing and arresting a fugitive. Also called posse comitatus.

That which belongs to one

A search party.

To have or possess as property

A gang involved in crimes such as running guns and illegal narcotics trafficking.

To have control over

(Slang) A group of friends or associates.

To admit as being in accordance with fact, truth, or a claim; acknowledge

plural of posse

To make a full confession or acknowledgment

Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

Not shared.

(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.

(obsolete) Not foreign.

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

To be very good.

(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.

(transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.

(transitive) To take responsibility for.

(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

(transitive) To claim as one's own.

To confess.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.

To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; - most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.

have ownership or possession of;

belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive;