Owner vs. Servant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Owner and Servant
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Owner
A person who owns something
Restaurant owners
The proud owner of a huge Dalmatian
Servant
One who is privately employed to perform domestic services.
Owner
Of or belonging to oneself or itself
She makes her own clothes.
Servant
One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government.
Owner
That which belongs to one
I wanted a room of my own.
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Servant
One who expresses submission, recognizance, or debt to another
Your obedient servant.
Owner
To have or possess as property
Owns a chain of restaurants.
Servant
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids.
Owner
To have control over
For a time, enemy planes owned the skies.
Servant
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing.
Owner
To admit as being in accordance with fact, truth, or a claim; acknowledge
"I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevaricator, greedy, derelict, / and I own that I remain so yet" (Walt Whitman).
Servant
(religion) A person who dedicates themselves to God.
Owner
To make a full confession or acknowledgment
When confronted with the evidence the thief owned up to the crime.
Servant
(obsolete) A professed lover.
Owner
One who owns something.
The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.
Servant
A person of low condition or spirit.
Owner
The captain of a ship.
Servant
To subject.
Owner
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Servant
One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country.
Owner
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business;
He is the owner of a chain of restaurants
Servant
One in a state of subjection or bondage.
Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.
Owner
A person who owns something;
They are searching for the owner of the car
Who is the owner of that friendly smile?
Servant
A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
In my time a servant was I one.
Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves.
Servant
To subject.
Servant
A person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
Servant
In a subordinate position;
Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics
The state cannot be a servant of the church
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