transferred possession

1. 1.

   a possession whose ownership changes or lapses

   Synonymstransferred property

   Broaderpossession

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Questions about transferred possession

What does transferred possession mean?

transferred possession means "a possession whose ownership changes or lapses".

What is another word for transferred possession?

Close synonyms include transferred 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 transferred possession a common word?

transferred possession 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.