property right

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   the legal right of ownership

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Questions about property right

What does property right mean?

property right means "the legal right of ownership".

Is property right a common word?

property right 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.