co-owned; co-owning

transitive verb

: to own (something) along with one or more others
The association will give parties who currently own or co-own multiple teams 18 months to comply with its new policies …—Jacob Wolf

Examples of co-own in a Sentence

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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund will co-own those outlets, too. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026 Established in Madrid by Roberto Butragueño and Andrés Sánchez Pajares and co-owned by SETT, Impulse Studio offers everything, from upstream development to financing, production, post-production, international sales and distribution. — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026 This comes amid worsening finances for the company, co-owned by Boeing and Lockheed, which has been seeking to raise additional funding. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026 Especially for a team co-owned by the uber-competitive Jordan. — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for co-own

Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of co-own was in 1864

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“Co-own.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/co-own. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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