PERSONAL PROPERTY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

personal property

noun

Definition of personal property

as in things

transportable items that one owns any personal property that is left in the lockers overnight will be impounded

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Recent Examples of personal property The committee is fighting the tax and backing other ballot measures that would nullify it, including a proposal to ban new taxes on financial assets and other personal property, excluding real estate. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 The measure would prohibit new state taxes on the ownership of personal property, a category that includes business interests, intellectual property and financial assets, like money held in retirement and investment accounts. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026 As for the show title, replevin is a legal action that allows a person to recover personal property wrongfully taken or unlawfully held by another. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Hobart Mayor Josh Huddelston explained that the city negotiated a plan for direct payments, thus granting Amazon a 35-year tax abatement on personal property (equipment on site) and a 10-year abatement on real property (buildings). — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for personal property

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Noun

Born in 1888, Jim Casey spent his life, starting at the tender age of eleven, thinking about how to deliver things more efficiently.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
New York — Brett Smiley was elected mayor of Providence in 2022 on a pledge to build more housing and get things done in Rhode Island’s capital city.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of things

Noun

Salceda was charged with one count of murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
She was given 10 days to surrender her certificate of naturalization, along with any copies in her possession, to government attorneys.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of possession

Noun

That opened the golfer up to having his girlfriend riffle through his belongings in order to make content for social media.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Contractors will continue working in the parking garage over the next four to six weeks before tenants can enter the Empire Towers building to retrieve their belongings, attorneys said.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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