Usually means: To have or own something.
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  1. posses: Merriam-Webster
  2. posses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. posses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Posse's, Posses, posse's, posses: Wordnik
  5. posses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. posses: Wiktionary
  7. posses: Dictionary.com
  8. posses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. posses: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. posses: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. posses: Legal dictionary

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  1. posses: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (posse)

noun:  A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
noun:  (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
noun:  (US) A search party.
noun:  (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
noun:  (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
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