| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's portable property. Used in plural: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, property, thing (often used in plural). Informal : stuff. Law : chattel, movable (often used in plural). See OWNED. 2. Something, as land and assets, legally possessed. Used in plural: estate, holding (often used in plural), property. See LAW, OWNED. 3. The fact of possessing or the legal right to possess something: dominion, ownership, proprietorship, title. See OWNED. 4. An area subject to rule by an outside power: colony, dependency, province, territory. See POLITICS.
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