personal property (noun)
1personal property — ► NOUN Law ▪ all of someone s property except land and buildings. Compare with REAL PROPERTY(Cf. ↑real property) …
2personal property — Defined by law to be all property that is not real property. Further classified in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code into various categories. American Banker Glossary Any assets other than real estate. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * *… …
3personal property — /ˌpɜ:s(ə)n(ə)l prɒpəti/ noun things which belong to a person ● The fire caused considerable damage to personal property …
4personal property — noun movable property (as distinguished from real estate) (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑personal estate, ↑personalty, ↑private property • Hypernyms: ↑property, ↑belongings, ↑holding …
5personal property — noun Date: 1833 property other than real property consisting of things temporary or movable ; chattels …
6personal property — noun Law all of someone s property except land and those interests in land that pass to their heirs. Compare with real property …
7personal property — noun Any property that is movable, that is, not real estate. Syn: personalty …
8personal property — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun One s portable property: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural).… …
9personal property — /pɜsənəl ˈprɒpəti/ (say persuhnuhl propuhtee) noun Law one of the two main classes into which English law has divided property, comprising all forms of property other than interests in freehold land. Compare real property. Also, personalty …
10property — prop·er·ty n pl ties [Anglo French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1: something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest …
