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have

verb

1 he had a new car and a boat:

possess, own, be in possession of, be the owner of, be the (proud) possessor of, have in one's possession, have to one's name, count among one's possessions, be blessed with, boast, enjoy;

keep, maintain, retain, hold, use, utilize, occupy.

▷antonyms be bereft of.

2 the apartment has five rooms:

comprise, consist of, contain, include, incorporate, be composed of, be made up of, be formed of;

embrace, embody, encompass, take in;

formal comprehend.

3 they had beans on toast | we had three cups of tea:

eat, consume, devour, partake of;

drink, empty, drain, quaff;

informal demolish, dispose of, put away, get outside of, scoff (down), pack away, tuck away;

imbibe, sink, knock back;

British, informal shift, bevvy;

North American, informal scarf (down/up), snarf (down/up), inhale;

rare ingurgitate, bib.

4 she had a letter from Mark:

receive, get, be given, be sent, obtain, acquire, procure, come by, take receipt of.

▷antonyms send; give.

5 we've decided to have a party:

organize, arrange, hold, give, host, throw, provide, put on, lay on, set up, fix up, make arrangements for, make preparations for, pencil in, prepare for, plan for.

▷antonyms cancel.

6 she's going to have a baby:

give birth to, bear, produce, be delivered of, bring into the world;

informal drop;

archaic be brought to bed of, bring forth, beget.

7 we are having guests for dinner:

entertain, be host to, cater for, receive;

invite over, ask over, show hospitality to, invite to a meal, invite to a party, wine and dine;

accommodate, put up, take in, give a bed to.

▷antonyms visit.

8 the driver had trouble finding the restaurant:

experience, encounter, undergo, face, meet, find, go through, run into, come across, be subjected to, have experience of, be faced with.

9 I have a headache:

be suffering from, be afflicted by, be affected by, be troubled with, be a sufferer from;

informal be a martyr to.

10 I went to a few parties and had a good time:

experience, enjoy, taste.

11 many pilots have doubts about the safety of the new computer system:

harbor, feel, entertain, foster, nurse, cherish, nurture, bear, sustain, maintain, keep in one's mind.

12 he had little patience with technological gadgetry:

manifest, show, display, exhibit, demonstrate, express, evince.

13 he had his bodyguards throw Chris out:

cause to, make, ask to, request to, get to, tell to, require to, persuade to, induce to, prevail upon someone to;

order to, command to, direct to, enjoin to, oblige to, force to, compel to, coerce to.

14 I can't have you insulting Tom like that:

tolerate, endure, bear, support, accept, put up with, go along with, take, countenance, brook;

permit to, allow to;

informal stand, abide, stick, stomach, hold with;

British, informal be doing with.

15 I have to get up at 6.30 tomorrow morning:

must, have got to, be obliged to, be required to, be compelled to, be forced to, be bound to, be duty-bound to, be under an obligation to.

16 informal I realized I'd been had:

trick, fool, deceive, cheat, dupe, take in, outwit, double-cross, hoodwink, swindle;

informal do, con, diddle, bilk, rip off, shaft, pull a fast one on, put one over on, take to the cleaners;

North American, informal sucker, snooker, stiff.

□ have done with

the drug scene is behind me—I have done with it:

be finished with, have finished with, be done with, be through with, want no more to do with, be no longer involved with/in, have given up, have no further dealings with, have turned one's back on, have washed one's hands of, have no more truck with.

▷antonyms get into.

□ have had itinformal

1 in private they admit that they've had it:

have no chance, have no hope, have failed, be finished, be out, be defeated, have lost, have no chance of success, have come to nothing;

informal have flopped, have bitten the dust, have come a cropper.

▷antonyms succeed.

2 if you ever let this information get out to the public, you've had it:

be in trouble, be going to be punished, be going to suffer the consequences, be going to pay the price, be in for a scolding, be going to answer for something;

informal be for it, be for the high jump, be in hot water, be in deep water, be in (deep) shtook, be going to take the rap, be going to catch it.

□ have it off (also have it away) British, vulgar slang

Steph had it off with Tony while he was going out with Lani:

have sex, have sexual intercourse, make love, sleep with/together, go to bed with/together;

mate;

informal do it, do the business, go all the way, make whoopee, have one's way with, bed, know in the biblical sense, tumble;

British, informal bonk, get one's oats;

North American, informal boff, get it on;

euphemistic be intimate;

vulgar slang fuck, screw, bang, lay, get one's leg over, shaft, dick, frig, do, have, hump, poke, shtup, dip one's wick, ride, service;

British, vulgar slang shag, knob, get one's end away, knock someone off, give someone one, roger, grind, stuff, tup;

Scottish, vulgar slang podger;

North American, vulgar slang ball, jump, jump someone's bones, bone, pork, diddle, nail;

Australian, New Zealand, vulgar slang root;

formal copulate;

archaic fornicate, possess, lie with/together, couple, swive, know.

□ have it in for (also have got it in for) informal

he's had it in for me since I started seeing Gwen:

be hostile to, show/feel ill will toward, show antagonism to, bear a grudge toward, be against, be set against, be prejudiced against, disapprove of;

persecute, pick on, push around, lean on, bully, abuse, discriminate against, ill-treat, mistreat, maltreat, harass, hound, torment, terrorize, torture, punish unfairly;

informal have a down on, be down on, give someone a hard time, hassle, needle, get on someone's back, make things hot for someone.

□ have nothing on (also have got nothing on) informal

I am not worried—they've got nothing on me:

have no evidence against, know nothing bad about, know nothing damning about, have no incriminating information about.

□ have someone on

British, informal

that's just too neat—you're having me on:

play a trick on, play a joke on, joke with, trick, tease, rag, pull someone's leg, fool around;

informal kid, rib, take the mickey out of, make a monkey out of, take for a ride, lead up the garden path;

British, informal wind up;

North American, informal put on, pull someone's chain;

British, vulgar slang take the piss out of;

dated make sport of.

□ have something on (also have got something on)

1 she had a blue dress on:

be wearing, be dressed in, be clothed in, be garbed in, be attired in, be turned out in, be decked out in, be tricked out in, be robed in;

archaic be appareled in.

2 British I have got a lot on at the moment:

be committed to, have arranged, have planned, have organized, have fixed up, have on the agenda, have made arrangements for.

□ let someone have itinformal

1 as soon as you see the enemy, let them have it!:

attack, assault, beat, beat up, batter, thrash, pound, pummel, assail, set upon, fall upon, strike at, let fly at, tear into, lash out at;

informal jump, paste, do over, work over, knock around, rough up, lay into, lace into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, beat the living daylights out of;

British, informal set about, have a go at, duff someone up;

North American, informal beat up on, light into.

2 she let me have it, in a stream of obscenities:

scold, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure;

informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, send someone away with a flea in their ear, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up, pitch into, lay into, lace into, give someone a caning, put on the mat, slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul;

British, informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row;

North American, informal chew out, ream out, take to the woodshed;

British, vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking, tear someone a new arsehole, rip someone a new arsehole;

North American, vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass, tear someone a new asshole, rip someone a new asshole;

dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim;

rare reprehend, objurgate.