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CHATTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chattel mean? 

CHATTEL (noun)
  The noun CHATTEL has 1 sense:

1. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)play

  Familiarity information: CHATTEL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHATTEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

chattel; movable; personal chattel

Hypernyms ("chattel" is a kind of...):

personal estate; personal property; personalty; private property (movable property (as distinguished from real estate))

Domain category:

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)


 Context examples 


They have purchased your slave judges, they have debauched your slave legislatures, and they have forced to worse horrors than chattel slavery your slave boys and girls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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