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say it: OH-ing
owing is an adjective meaning "owed as a debt". It is pronounced /ˈoʊɪŋ/ — OH-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
owed as a debt
“outstanding bills”
“the amount still owed”
“undischarged debts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for owing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.