private property

Questions about private property

What does private property mean?

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

What is another word for private property?

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

private 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.