personal effects

1. 1.

   property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business

   “she left some of her personal effects in the house”

   “I watched over their effects until they returned”

   Synonymseffects

   Broaderpersonal property

Questions about personal effects

What does personal effects mean?

personal effects means "property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business".

What is another word for personal effects?

Close synonyms include effects. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personal effects a common word?

personal effects is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.