personal property

Questions about personal property

What does personal property mean?

personal property means "movable property (as distinguished from real estate)".

What is another word for personal property?

Close synonyms include personal estate, personalty, private property. 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 property a common word?

personal property 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.