PRIVATE PROPERTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does private property mean? 

• PRIVATE PROPERTY (noun)
  The noun PRIVATE PROPERTY has 1 sense:

1. movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

  Familiarity information: PRIVATE PROPERTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIVATE PROPERTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

personal estate; personal property; personalty; private property

Hypernyms ("private property" is a kind of...):

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "private property"):

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

effects; personal effects (property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business)

clobber; stuff (informal terms for personal possessions)

 Context examples 

Like the others, it had a daub of asphalt upon its shoulder, and it was only when we saw one of the natives step forward with the air of an owner and give his consent to the beast's slaughter that we understood at last that these great creatures were as much private property as a herd of cattle, and that these symbols which had so perplexed us were nothing more than the marks of the owner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)