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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Benyam Woldegiorgis, who co-owns the Nile Bar on Market Street, is showing every single World Cup match — all 104 of them. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026 Samuel Machado, a former Yolo County Sheriff’s lieutenant, also co-owns the property. Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026 The Treasury Department recently fined a company that was co-owned by Sobachevskiy hundreds of millions of dollars for managing a different investment on behalf of a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 18 June 2026 Ginger Davis, who co-owns the cafe with her husband, also spoke at the briefing. Tim Fang, CBS News, 15 June 2026 The latter, a toy company, co-owns the Transformers brand with Hasbro and used their expertise and technology developed from designing toys of the Autobots and Decepticons to give SORA-Q its transforming capabilities. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 June 2026 The Stars’ future and DFW traffic The biggest reason the Stars are leaving for Plano is a free $700 million, and the chance to co-own a real estate development. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026 Deutsche Bank sees BetMGM, co-owned by MGM and Entain, bringing in about $250 million, Caesars at about $120 million and Penn's theScore Bet at about $83 million. Contessa Brewer, CNBC, 10 June 2026 Caroline Glover, a 2022 James Beard Award-winning chef, co-owns the restaurant Annette and Traveling Mercies, an oyster and cocktail bar in the Stanley Marketplace. Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 June 2026

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 22 Jun. 2026.

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