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our
1[ ouuhr, ou-er; unstressed ahr ]
pronoun
- (a form of the possessive case of we used as an attributive adjective):
Our team is going to win. Do you mind our going on ahead?
-our
2- variant of -or 1.
our
1/ ʊə /
determiner
- of, belonging to, or associated in some way with us
our parents are good to us
our best vodka
- belonging to or associated with all people or people in general
our nearest planet is Venus
- a formal word for my used by editors or other writers, and monarchs
- informal.(often sarcastic) used instead of your
are our feet hurting?
- dialect.belonging to the family of the speaker
it's our Sandra's birthday tomorrow
-our
2suffix forming nouns
- indicating state, condition, or activity
labour
behaviour
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Grammar Note
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of our1
Origin of our2
Example Sentences
Mr Ackman said the American leader now had "an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country".
"We started to work on the things that were happening in our homeland, but then realised that they could be applied to a lot of other countries in the world," he told OkayAfrica.
"He's been part of our succession planning for some time, albeit this opportunity has come slightly earlier than expected," Rob Key, the managing director of England men's cricket said.
Some of those freed under the deal were serving sentences for other serious crimes, including the killing of Israelis, but that was not the case for our interviewees.
And I love that people feel that kind of ownership of our music and our band.”
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