property
IPA: prˈɑpɝti
noun
- Something that is owned.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- (Britain) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
- (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- (US) A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
- (US, by extension, rare) A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
- (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
verb
- (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
- (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
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Examples of "property" in Sentences
- It's a property of the Stingray.
- It is merely the definition of the property.
- We must expropriate gently the private property.
- The property remains the private property of the landowner.
- Stolen property is not the legitimate property of the possessor.
- In September 2009, the members decided to privatize the property.
- Today the dredge is private property and off limits to the public.
- An executor has no property interest in the property of the devisor.
- The property dedicated to waqf is generally immovable, such as estate.
- The Wrights named the property after the hawthorn trees found on the property.