Be a self-employed solicitor? (3)
I believe the answer is:
beg
'be' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for beg that I've seen before include "Ask humbly" , "Earnestly entreat" , "Plead or ask for alms" , "Plead or scrounge" , "Ask for as charity or gift" .)