PERSONAL PROPERTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personal property mean? 

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

1. movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONAL 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 ("personal 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 "personal 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 

An office of the National Institutes of Health that acts as a central services organization for personal property, logistics and acquisition services.

(Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations, NCI Thesaurus)

Odds and ends, some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish, an old-fashioned pinfire revolver, and a guitar were among the personal property.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)