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possessor:
(plural: ‘possessors‘)
the possessor of a large blue bag
a person who has something for him/herself; a person who owns something; an owner;
a person who has something with him/her though it may not be his/her own, i.e. though he/she is not the real owner, (the real owner may be another person and he/she may have borrowed or stolen it from that owner, and now it is with him/her)
an unlicensed possessor of guns
e.g.
A possessor is a person who has something in his/her possession, i.e. he or she has something with him or her that is his/her own, not somebody else’s.
The police arrested the possessor of a kilo of heroin in his possession at the airport.
a possessor of drugs (R) caught by the customs officer (L)
{Note: ‘Possessed’, as an adjective, is used to refer to a person who is supposed to be taken over by some evil spirit and needs somebody to exorcise that evil spirit to leave that person.}
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