adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
owing to
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Owing to a lack of funds, the project will not continue next year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How much is still owing ?
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Most of the money has been repaid but there is still £5 owing .
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The total amount owing at the end of ten years will be over $20,000.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Farrington Stead dealt in gilt-edged securities, investments also offered by Barlow Clowes which went into liquidation in June 1988 owing £190million.
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For the man-about-town of the 1890s betraying concern at owing money to tradesmen was bourgeois, boring and absurd.
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She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement.
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That would leave her owing Hannah, but she could sort that out later, after they'd gone.
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When they collect you will get the 20 percent or so balance still owing .