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owing
adjective as in unpaid
Example Sentences
Consumers also are paying more owing to the growing cost of building new power lines to connect wind and solar, and escalating “balancing costs” to supply electricity when intermittent renewable sources aren’t generating.
Earlier this month it was revealed that His Majesty's Revenue & Customs was seeking a winding-up petition, with the club owing £1m.
Departures from there have decreased, owing to a $290-million EU agreement from 2023, but thousands of mainly sub-Saharan African migrants feel stranded.
But while the reading will be closely watched owing to its implications for Federal Reserve policy, markets widely expect the central bank to cut interest rates again when it meets next week.
The economy has shifted away from jobs requiring direct physical labor toward more sedentary jobs owing to computerization and mechanization, making age-based disability standards that assume jobs require physical exertion outdated and ripe for reform.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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