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To own. Also: To experience.

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Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To own. Also: To experience. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: The rich people in a country or society.

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  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
  • What do we have here?
  • have a postdoc
  • I have two years left
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  • I will "have" (to obtain) three cookies that have been cut into "halves" (two equal parts). Note: "Half" is one of two equal parts. "Halve" means to cut something into two equal parts.
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