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Definition: Property |
PropertyNoun1. Any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House". 2. Something owned; any tangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";. 3. A basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles". 4. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property". 5. Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "property" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Property \Prop"er*ty\, noun; plural Properties. [Old English proprete, Old French propret['e] property, French propret['e] neatness, cleanliness, propri['e]t['e] property, from Latin proprietas. See Proper, a., and compare to Propriety.]. (references) |
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Satire | PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Business | In a financial sense, proprietor's capital, loan capital ; in a sense relating to business economy, the total purchasing power possessed by the investments of a business management; the balance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you own vast property, denotes that you will be successful in affairs, and gain friendships. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | Something that is owned or possessed. Property may be real (land), personal, tangible (touchable), or intangible (such as the interest in a play or other creative work). (references) |
Fine Arts | An item of furniture, an ornament, or a decoration in stage setting; any object handled or used by an actor in a performance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | Any of the properties that constitute a concept. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | Assets of every kind, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, and legal documents or instruments evidencing title to or interests in such assets. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | One of the physical and chemical characteristics of a material. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PROPERTY. To make a property of any one; to make him a conveniency, tool, or cat's paw; to use him as one's own. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Within the law, property is a general legal category for rights of ownership in land, money, tangible objects, intangible objects, etc. An individual or a group has control of a certain scarce resource. Within the conceptual framework provided by law this control is assured by the power of the law, or by power exercised under the law, and not by any separate power. However, philosophically at least, it is possible to think of property concepts outside a legal framework - though, as in the Middle Ages, a legal framework for property might well emerge.
General characteristics
Property rights are usually thought of in terms of a bundle of rights, so they can be dealt with as a thing. Traditionally, they are:
Sometimes a fourth is listed, the right to exclude others, e.g. non-owners. Supporters of capitalism, such as the Austrian School, believe that property rights are important as they encourage the property holders to develop the property, generate wealth and efficiently allocate resources. Conversely, supporters of socialism and communism tend to be more suspicious of property rights as they believe that these rights are used by the ruling elites to rob the masses of wealth that is rightfully theirs. Supporters of libertarian socialism wish to abolish property rights, so that all property is shared.
- control over use
- right to benefits of property (e.g. mining royalties, farm royalties, etc.),
- and to transfer or sell.
It is commonly but incorrectly believed that some cultures, for example native Americans had no concept of property. This mistaken belief comes from the fact that some commodities which are considered economically important in one society are not valuable in others. Thus ownership of land is important for agricultural societies but not in hunter-gatherer societies. However, in practically all societies, one can find the concept of property applied to some object whose ownership is economically valuable. For example, African hunter-gatherer societies do not have ownership of land, but ownership of water holes is important.
Not every person, or entity, with an interest in a given piece of property may be able to exercise all of those rights. For example, as a lessee of a particular piece of property, you may not sell the property, which is one of the rights in the bundle reserved for the owner. Similarly, while you are a lessee the owner cannot use his or her right to exclude to keep you from the property. (Or, if he or she does you may perhaps be entitled to stop paying rent or perhaps sue to regain access.)
Further, property may be held in a number of forms, e.g. joint ownership, community property, sole ownership, lease, etc. These different types of ownership may complicate an owner's ability to exercise his or her rights unilaterally. For example if two people own a single piece of land as joint tenants, then depending on the law in the jurisdiction, each may have limited recourse for the actions of the other. For example, one of the owners might sell his or her interest in the property to a stranger that the other owner does not particularly like.
Types of property
Most legal systems distinguish between different types of property, especially between land and all other forms of property. They also often distinguish between tangible and intangible property as well.
In common law, property is divided into:
Personal property in turn is divided into tangible property (such as cars, clothing, animals) and intangible or abstract property (stocks, bonds, bank deposits, derivatives, options, futures, patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc.), which includes intellectual property (though some disagree with the use of the term intellectual property).
- real property - interests in land
- personal property - interests in anything other than land
What can be property?
Not everything can be property; only those objects or ideas which others can be economically, physically, or otherwise excluded from can be considered property. Thus the air and the water in the sea belong to no one (presumably, although there are many instances of this in our contemporary society; see airspace, no-fly zone, or United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea), though once stored in bottles or tanks, they can be considered property.
Traditionally many things existed that did not legally have an owner, such as commons (land belonging to nobody in particular, but over which commoners had rights). But over centuries and millennia law in all societies has tended to develop towards reducing the number of things not having clear owners. This enables better protection of scarce resources, due to the tragedy of the commons. But there are many things today which still do not have owners: ideas, seawater, the seafloor (though due to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, some of it can now be considered in some ways property), celestial bodies, land in Antarctica.
The human body is, in modern societies, considered something which cannot be the property of anyone but the person whose body it is. This is in contradistinction to the old practice in many societies of chattel slavery, which is almost universally considered unjust and illegal today.
In many ancient legal systems (e.g. early Roman law), religious sites (e.g. temples) were considered property of the God or Gods they were devoted to. However, religious pluralism makes it more convenient to have religious sites owned by the religious body that runs them.
Quotations
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all... It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. -- Thomas Jefferson
See also
Ideologies in support of property and ownership
- Capitalism is in support of private ownership.
- Communism is in support of state ownership.
Ideologies opposed to property as an institution
- Some forms of Anarchism are opposed to property as an institution.
- Property is Theft
Other articles
In computing, properties are pieces of information attributed into certain items. In theater and film, properties (or "props") are objects used in a performance which are handled or manipulated by the actors.
- Grantee and grantor.
- Lien
- Homeowner
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Property."
Synonyms: PropertySynonyms: attribute (n), belongings (n), dimension (n), holding (n), material possession (n), place (n), prop (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | State government, state; shire; province; county; canton; territory; duchy, archduchy, archdukedom; woiwodshaft; commonwealth; region; property. |
Materials | Materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum; (food); ammunition; (arms); contingents; relay, reinforcement, reenforcement; baggage; (personal property); means; calico, cambric, cashmere. |
Power | Capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility. |
Property | Personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage. |
Noun: property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum. | |
Landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground; (earth); acquest, messuage, toft. | |
Be one's property; Noun: belong to; appertain to, pertain to. | |
Relinquishment | Discontinuance; (cessation); renunciation; (recantation); abrogation; resignation; (retirement); desuetude; cession; (of property). |
The Drama | Property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager; director, stage manager, acting manager. |
Transference | Noun: transfer, transference; translocation, elocation; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion, amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer; (of property). |
Wealth | Provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property; command of money. |
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Screenplays | He claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) To protect the property and citizenry of (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) If any of you so much as pass gas in my direction and upset my delicate nasal passages, your testicles will become my private property. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) If I had my way, we'd all be thinkin' more about human rights than we do about property rights (Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter; writing credit: Alan Finney; John D. Lamond) Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property - the rightful owners (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) | |
Lyrics | My property (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702) See he's my property (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702) I’m not your property as from today, baby (Stronger; performing artist: Britney Spears) stands for property (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Movie/TV Titles | This Property Is Condemned (1966) Private Property (1960) Other People's Property (1951) Personal Property (1937) Common Property (1919) | |
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![]() | Beach erosion studies As property values increased, beach erosion studies became important Raymond Stanton Patton, Director of C&GS 1929-1938, was a pioneer in this field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Turning in the government property when it looked like there were no more funds Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Canal used to drain property to convert and maintain former marsh land to pasture. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | The Seattle City Light property. A portion of this site, right side of the image, was used to create the Hamm Creek project which daylighted the creek and created several meanders to improve the habitat function of this salmon-bearing stream. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Former Kenco Marine has been purchased by the Muckleshhot Indian Tribe on behalf of the Eliot Bay/ Duwamish River Natural Resource Trustees. The habitat value of the property will be enhanced by removing the structure on the site and pulling back the shoreline to create mudflat, salt marsh, and a riparian buffer habitat for fish and wildlife. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Aerial view of Thousand-acre Ricefield on the Belle W. Baruch Foundation's property, Hobcaw Barony. Winyah Bay in foreground, North Inlet and Atlantic Ocean in background. During 1800's many rice plantations lined the rivers that flow into Winyah Bay and Georgetown was nation's largest rice exporter. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
![]() | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Eroding shoreline on reserve property on Mobile Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | Figure 28. Pasquion sounder invented by the Frenchman August Pasquion. This device was never featured in a publication; however, it was patented on June 26, 1906, by the National Office of Industrial Property. Its first ocean tests took place in 1905 and it was used by the French cable survey ships for at least the next fifteen years. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 60. Regnard apparatus for the study of the diffusion of oxygen in sea water. Concerned with the diffusion of air in sea water in still water, Doctor Paul Regnard, a French physiologist, invented this device based on an experiment by Julien Thoulet. He used the property that certain materials change their color in the presence of oxygen and described the device in 1891. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Ferocious winds gusting up to 59 mph tore through Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, Nov. 5, causing severe damage to base property. Building 1564/1565, a combined warehouse, received the most noticeable damage, when the wind gusts shattered windows and toppled. |
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| "Dragonfly" by Melissa Squires Commentary: "A dragonfly on a twig at a friend of mine's property." | "Computer & chain 1" by Jen Dixon Commentary: "I took these photos for a project that I was working on about intellectual property security. I'm not sure that these illustrate that, but hopefully someone can use them for something. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | The property of power is to protect. |
Charles Caleb Colton | Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. |
Charles Dickens | Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. |
Henry George | Property in land is as indefensible as property in man. |
Horace | Labor diligently to increase your property. |
Jacques Pierre Brissot | Exclusive property is a theft against nature. |
James Monroe | National honor is national property of the highest value. |
Peter F. Drucker | Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. |
Seneca | The best ideas are common property. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That was his property which could not be taken from him where-ever he had fixed it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2008 | No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | All property rights shall be safeguarded. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I thought you had lost half your property, at least |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | But the poor fishermen had not so easily forgotten their property. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | M. Myriel had no property, his family having been impoverished by the revolution |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | On the evening of the day on which the property was sold Stephen followed his father meekly about the city from bar to bar. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The property is the man, stronger than he is. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Of all this the people are well apprised, and understand how far to carry their obstinacy, where their liberty or property is concerned |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Anticoagulants reduce stroke risk by reducing the clotting property of the blood. (references) | |
Antiplatelet drugs prevent clotting by decreasing the activity of platelets, blood cells that contribute to the clotting property of blood. (references) | ||
This property makes them more deadly to malignant tissue, which contains a high proportion of growing and dividing cells, than to most normal cells. (references) | ||
Business | Local end users are property developers and building owners. (references) | |
More than 60 percent of these incidents are against property. (references) | ||
A woman's property is not commingled with that of her husband. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | The girl, who is known as a Trokosi or a Fiashidi, then becomes the property of the shrine god and the charge of the shrine priest for the duration of her stay. (references) |
Kenya | The number of Nairobi's street children was more than 60,000 in 2000, an estimated 20 percent increase from 1999. These children often are involved in theft, drug trafficking, assault, trespassing, and property damage. (references) | |
United Kingdom | Persons with Disabilities The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of access to public facilities by employers of more than 15 workers, service providers (apart from those providing education or running transport vehicles), and anyone selling or renting property. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The slowing pace of restitution is, among other things, a reflection of the country's difficult economic condition, which severely limits funds available for the relocation of the occupants of seized religious property. (references) |
Greece | Under a 1999 national land and property registry law, the wakfs, as with all property holders, must register all of their property with the Government. (references) | |
Algeria | Many demonstrators burned and looted government buildings, political party offices, and public and private property. (references) | |
Discrimination | Kazakhstan | No one may be subjected to any discrimination for reasons of origin, social position, occupation, property status, sex, race, nationality, language, attitude to religion, convictions, place of residence, or any other circumstances;" however, the Government does not enforce this provision effectively on a consistent basis. (references) |
Hong Kong | The Bill of Rights Ordinance, which provides for the incorporation into law of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as applied to Hong Kong, entitles residents to the civil and political rights recognized therein "without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." However, the ordinance binds only the Government, public authorities and persons acting on their behalf; that is, not private persons or entities. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | The Embassy has received several complaints from individuals who claim not to have been compensated for the loss of their property. (references) |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | By some estimates, resolving property claims in the RS will take another 8 or 9 years. (references) |
Nicaragua | After numerous delays, the new property tribunals finally started accepting cases for filing in 2000. The tribunals' administrative offices are fully staffed and mediators and arbitrators have been appointed and are conducting proceedings. (references) | |
Costa Rica | The law grants considerable rights to squatters who invade uncultivated land, regardless of who may hold title to the property. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Angola | Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that some members of indigenous groups committed suicide upon loss of their wealth or property. (references) |
India | Such violations led to numerous tribal movements demanding the protection of land and property rights. (references) | |
Costa Rica | In 1999 a group of indigenous persons from Puntarenas challenged the constitutionality of the 1978 Indigenous Law because of their inability to possess private property on the reservation. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | The Helsinki Monitor reported that in September seven Romani shacks in Aspropyrgos were demolished by municipal authorities who claimed that the shacks were located on private property. (references) |
Ghana | However, in December renewed violence between the Mamprusi and Kusasi ethnic groups in Bawku resulted in widespread rioting, destruction of property, and loss of life. (references) | |
Croatia | Property destruction and other forms of harassment often arose from disputes between home occupiers of one ethnicity and returning homeowners of another. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Enforcement of Greek laws protecting audio-visual intellectual property rights for film, software, music, and books is problematic, but has improved in the last few years. (references) |
GREECE | Greek laws extend protection of intellectual property rights to both foreign and Greek nationals. (references) | |
HAITI | While infringement of intellectual property rights occurs in Haiti, the economy only produces a small variety of products, most of which are exported to the United States and other countries that do not tolerate open infringement. (references) | |
Political Rights | Djibouti | On December 13, 2000, the magistrate in charge of the investigation charged the 13 with conspiracy and breach of state security and cited them with calling on citizens to take up arms illegally, carrying and making use of weapons of war, and damaging public property. (references) |
Nepal | The King's income and property are tax-exempt and inviolable, and no question may be raised in any court about any act performed by the King. (references) | |
Haiti | Demonstrators destroyed property and threatened several opposition leaders. (references) | |
Trade | China | The Bilateral Agreement on China's WTO Accession is only the latest of fifteen trade agreements negotiated between the United States and China since 1979. These agreements cover everything from civil aviation and satellite exports to agriculture and intellectual property rights protection. (references) |
Korea | The Republic of Korea is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has signed subsidiary agreements including TRIPs (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) and the Government Procurement Agreement. (references) | |
Panama | Other problematic transactions include trade in pirated intellectual property and stolen vehicles. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Property Tax: This is exacted on commercial or industrial business at a rate of 0.05 percent on appraised value. (references) |
Oman | The major hotels patronized by western business visitors and tourists in the Muscat area are: the Hyatt (a five-star beach front property, close to the U.S. Embassy, and with luxurious rooms and excellent restaurants), the Al Bustan Palace Hotel (five star, on the beach, a "must see" site), Muscat Intercontinental (convenient to most ministries and on the beach); Sheraton (overlooking the Ruwi central business district, with complete business center facilities); Muscat Holiday Inn and the Radisson (particularly convenient to the Ministries and growing Al Khuwair business area); Crown Plaza Hotel (possessing a seafront location and a variety of good restaurants); the Seeb (airport) and Ruwi Novotels, and the renovated Mercure-Al Falaj in Ruwi. (references) | |
Thailand | A good range of commercial banking services is available in Thailand for both business and retail customers . Deposit accounts, lending facilities, foreign exchange, import/export facilities and other products and services such as credit cards, debit cards and automatic teller machines (ATM) are offered . Foreign banks have joined the local ATM network, thus enabling their customers to use their overseas bank ATM card at any ATM within the domestic network . There are approximately 5,000 ATM's in Thailand, with older machines being replaced by newer ones . Some limitations, such as on mortgage lending to foreigners, do exist, reflecting restrictions on foreign ownership of property. (references) | |
Women | Nepal | Women face systematic discrimination, particularly in rural areas, where religious and cultural tradition, lack of education, and ignorance of the law remain severe impediments to their exercise of basic rights such as the right to vote or to hold property in their own names. (references) |
South Africa | Violating a protection order is punishable by a prison sentence of up to 5 years, or 20 years if additional criminal charges, including indecent assault, rape, incest, attempted murder, malicious damage to property, or pointing a firearm, are made. (references) | |
Cameroon | Often, the husband, who sometimes is many years older than the girl, pays a bride's parents a "bride price." Since a price has been paid, the girl is considered the property of the husband. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Romania | Trade unions may acquire property, support their member's exercise of their profession, establish mutual insurance funds, print publications, set up cultural, teaching, and research bodies, establish commercial enterprises and banks, and borrow money. (references) |
Nicaragua | The CST organized a series of work stoppages leading to the occupation of the factory in May 2000. Chentex then filed criminal charges against the nine board members for damaging property, kidnaping management personnel, and injuring security persons during the takeover. (references) | |
Qatar | No worker in a public utility, health, or security service may strike if it would harm the public or lead to property damage. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Sela Ward | Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The acquisition of them, made at the expense of the whole Union, not only in treasury but in blood, marks a right of property in them equally extensive. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Much time is lost, much unnecessary expense incurred, and much public property wasted under the present arrangement. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | All owners of property are charged with a service. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | For our citizens to patronize the violation of a particular law on the ground that they are opposed to it is destructive of the very basis of all that protection of life, of homes and property which they rightly claim under other laws. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We are also making arrangements under which those countries may use the lend-lease inventories in their possession and acquire surplus property abroad to assist in their economic rehabilitation and reconstruction. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Nor can we fail to arrest the destruction of life and property on our highways. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Another major threat to every American's person and property is the criminal carrying a handgun. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | To establish those values, two centuries ago a bold generation of Americans risked their property, their position, and life itself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Property" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "Property" is used about 12,539 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.9% | 12,526 | 734 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12,539 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Advance Property Fund | Indonesia | Indonesia Prima Property Tbk. Pt. |
| Ireland | Green Property PLC | Israel | Property & Building Corporation Limited |
| Malaysia | Arab-Malaysian First Property Trust | Netherlands | Schroders European Property Fund NV |
| New Zealand | Kiwi Income Property Trust | Philippines | Cebu Property Ventures & Development Corporation |
| South Africa | Allan Gray Property Trust | Thailand | Golden Land Property Development Public Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "property": action for recovery of property ♦ alien property ♦ allergenic property ♦ antifrictional property ♦ appraise property ♦ article of property ♦ bodily property ♦ business property ♦ chemical property ♦ church property ♦ color property ♦ commercial property ♦ common property ♦ communal property ♦ community of property ♦ community property ♦ comparative property ♦ compensation for property damage ♦ contextual property ♦ conveyance of property ♦ corporate property ♦ Corporeal property ♦ crime involving property ♦ damage to property ♦ ergodic property ♦ extrinsic property ♦ farm property ♦ fungible property ♦ government property ♦ house property ♦ immovable property ♦ immovable property transfer tax ♦ incidental property ♦ insulating property ♦ intellectual property ♦ intellectual property rights ♦ joint property ♦ land property ♦ landed property ♦ leased property ♦ Literary property ♦ lost and found property ♦ lost property ♦ lost property department ♦ lost property office ♦ man of property ♦ matrimonial property ♦ movable property ♦ of property ♦ olfactory property ♦ partition of joint property ♦ peg out a property ♦ personal property ♦ physical property ♦ physiological property ♦ pledging of the income from real property ♦ private property ♦ property centre ♦ property damage ♦ property developer ♦ property held jointly by husband and wife ♦ property inheritance ♦ property insurance ♦ property line ♦ property man ♦ property management ♦ property manager ♦ property market ♦ property master ♦ property mistress ♦ property owner ♦ property owning ♦ property plot ♦ property right ♦ property room ♦ property settlement ♦ property speculation ♦ property tax ♦ public property ♦ qualified property ♦ real estate property ♦ real property ♦ real property tax ♦ removal of confiscated property ♦ right of property ♦ rural property ♦ seizure of immovable property ♦ separation of property ♦ sound property ♦ spatial property ♦ special property ♦ state property ♦ stolen property ♦ tactile property ♦ tangible property ♦ taste property ♦ tax on property ♦ temporal property ♦ tenancies of immovable property ♦ theft of found property ♦ title to property. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "property": property-backed, property-based, property-buying, property-by-property, property-casualty, property-claims, property-class, property-company, property-complex, property-conscious, property-damaging, property-deals, property-disputes, property-for-property, property-holders, property-holding, property-insurance, property-investment, property-it, property-led, property-master, property-meanings, property-nucleus, property-orientated, property-owner, property-owners, property-ownership, property-owning, property-poll, property-price, property-related, property-rights, property-sets, property-tax, property-temperature, property-which, property-word. | |
Ending with "property": commercial-property. | |
Containing "property": non-property-owners. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "property"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | plaas (estate, farm, lay down, locate, place, put, put down, ranch), boereplaas (estate, farm, ranch), besitting (possession), besit (own, possess, possession). (various references) | |
Albanian | pronë (acquest, assets, demesne, domain, estate, gear, goods, holding, land, ownership, patrimony, possession, premise, realty), toka, tipar (attribute, character, facet, feature, lineament, point, trait), shtëpi (abode, chalet, fire side, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, household, place, residence, roof, shebang), karakteristikë (character, characteristic, datum, lineament, peculiarity, qualification, specification). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملك (wealth), مال (money, tax), ميزة (advantage, attribute, character, characteristic, excellence, feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, quality, speciality, trait), ممتلكات (asset, belongings, dominions, estate, fencing, gear, holding, possession, possessions, substance), ملكية عقارية, ملكية خاصة, ملكية (estate, monarchy, ownership, possession, regality, royalty), ملك (get hold of, have, hold, king, monarch, own, ownership, possess, possession, prince, reign, rejoice, sovereign), مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, like, pelf, possessions, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), حق تبعي, عقارات (immovables), صفة مميزة (attribute, characteristic, difference, flavor, flavour, savor, savour, stamp, turn), خصلة (attribute, curl of hair, peculiarity, quality, quiff), خاصة (especially, essentiality, mostly, particular, particularly, predominately). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стопанство, свойство (feature, tincture), собственост (demesne, havings, ownership, possessions, proprietorship, tenure), реквизитен, отличително качество, притежание (domain, enjoyment, holding, ownership, possession, proprietorship), имущество (estate, havings, possession, store, tenure), имуществен, имотен (propertied, proprietary), имот (asset, estate, ground), имение (domain, estate, hacienda, holding, land, place, seat), достояние (appanage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 資產 (assets), 貲 (fine instead of punishment), 財物 (belongings), 財產 , 財 (money, riches, valuables, wealth), 特性 (characteristic), 物产 (Properties), 產業 (estate, industrial, industry), 產 (estate, give birth, produce, products, resources, to produce, to reproduce), 屬性 (attribute). (various references) | |
Czech | vlastnost (affection, attribute, feature, make, nature, point, quality, side, trait), vlastnictví (holding, keeping, ownership, possession), nemovitost (real estate, realty, tenement), majetek (belongings, estate, holding, means, possession, wealth). (various references) | |
Danish | ejendom (ownership, possession), egenskab (quality), bondegård (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermogen (ability, be able, be able to, capital, possession), landgoed (estate, farm, ranch), eigendom (ownership, possession), bezitting (estate, farm, possession, ranch). (various references) | |
Esperanto | propraĵo, posedaĵo (possession), kvalito (quality), bieno (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ogn (possession), kyn (quality, sex, type), eginleiki (feature, quality, trait), bóndagarður (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Farsi | مال (For, Fortune, Lucre, Wealth), صفت خاص , خاصیت (Nature, Navigate, Quale, Virtue), استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Caliber, Capacity, Genius, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Liability, Shift, Tendency, Turquoise, Verve), داراءی (Asset, Estate, Fortune, Possession, Purse, Thing, Wealth). (various references) | |
Finnish | ominaisuus (quality). (various references) | |
French | propriété, biens, qualité, domaine (province), bien, accessoire (prop). (various references) | |
Frisian | pleats (estate, farm, ranch), slach (blow, quality), eigenskip (quality), boupleats (estate, farm, ranch), boerepleats (estate, farm, ranch), besitting (possession), besit (possession), alloai (quality). (various references) | |
German | Eigenschaft (attribute, capacity, character, characteristic, feature, grace, predicate, qualification, qualify, quality, trait), Eigentum (estate, ownership, possession, properties, proprietorship, tenancy), Besitz (belongings, domain, estate, holding, holdings, occupancy, ownership, possession, premises, tenure, to acquire property), vermögen (ability, be able, be able to, be capable, capacity, faculty, fortune, mean, pile, power, resource, wealth), Gut (all right, belongings, beneficial, capable, domain, efficiently, estate, farm, fine, freight, gear, good, goods, handsomely, holding, item, keen, manor, material, nice, nicely, o.k., okay, possession, quiet, ranch, rigging, safely, sharp, solid, that's good, understood, well), grundstück (estate, plot, plot of land, premises, realty, site), Besitztum (estate, possession). (various references) | |
Greek | περιουσία (belongings, estate, fortune, holding, possessions, substance, wealth), ιδιοκτησία (ownership, proprietorship). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקנה (cattle, herd, livestock, purchase, stock), קנין (acquisition, asset, cattle, chattels, ownership, wealth), ערך (asset, estimation, importance, magnitude, moment, order, set, suit, value, worth), טוב (fair, good, goodness, kind, wealth, well), רכוש (capital, estate, hold, possession, substance, wealth), סגולה (mascot, merit, peculiarity, qualification, qualifications, quality, remedy, trait, treasure, virtue), נחלה (bequest, estate, heritage, inheritance, legacy, possession), נכסים (estate, holding), נכס (asset, possession, riches, wealth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vagyon (asset, bank-roll, estate, fortune, goods, opulence, pelf, possessions, riches, shekels, substance, title, wealth), tulajdon (before my eyes, before my very eyes, belongings, holding, own, ownership, peculiar, properties, propriety), birtok (asset, demesne lands, domain, estate, holding, land, lordship, possession, propriety, substance, tenancy, tenure). (various references) | |
Icelandic | stórbýli (estate, farm, ranch), eign (possession), eiginleiki (quality), búgarður (estate, farm, ranch), bú (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanah milik, sifat (attribute, nature, trait), milik (possession), khasiat. (various references) | |
Irish | maoine, maoin, feirm (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Italian | proprietà (capacity, estate, land, ownership), possesso (belongings, chattel, having, holding, mastery, ownership, possession, tenure), patrimonio (asset, assets, estate, fortune, heritage, holding, patrimony, possessions), fattoria (estate, farm, farmhouse, farmstead, Grange, homestead, ranch), caratteristica (character, characteristic, distinction, feature, hallmark, peculiarity, trait), beni (assets, estate, good, goods). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 身代 (fortune), 身上 (a fortune, body, housekeeping, merit, social position, wealthy person), 資財 (assets, fortune), 資産 (assets, fortune, means), 財貨 (commodity), 財物 , 財産 (assets, fortune), 財産 (assets, fortune), プロトン磁力計 (probability, professional, professor, profile, profiler, profit, propaganda, propagandist, propagation, propane, propane gas, propeller, proper, propylene, proton magnetometer), 性質 (disposition, nature), 性 (characteristic, custom, gender, one's nature, sex), 所有物 (possession). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プロパティー , プロパティ , しざい (assets, capital punishment, fortune, material, private property, the death penalty), しさん (assets, fortune, means, scattering, trial calculation), ざいさん (assets, fortune), ざいぶつ, ざいか (commodity, crime, fault, goods on hand, guilt, offence, offense, punishment, stock), しょゆうぶつ (possession), しんしょう (a fortune, a wealthy merchant, evidence, genuine case, housekeeping, impression, narrow victory, wealthy person), しんだい (bed, couch, fortune), さが (characteristic, custom, one's nature), せいしつ (disposition, heir, legal wife, nature, room for receiving guests). (various references) | |
Korean | 재산 (estate, Properties). (various references) | |
Manx | tro (trait), thie as thalloo, shellooghys, nhee thie cloie, mayn (good order), cair (due, just, privilege, right, rights). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kvalitet (quality), gård (estate, farm, ranch), eiendom (estate, possession). (various references) | |
Papiamen | propiedat (possession), kalidat (quality). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opertypray.(various references) | |
Polish | cecha (quality). (various references) | |
Portuguese | propriedade (demesne, effect, estate, ground, lordship, ownership, patrimony, possession, possessions, proprietary, proprietorship, propriety, quality), granja (estate, farm, fowl run, grange, ranch), fazenda (cloth, commodity, estate, farm, hacienda, material, merchandise, plantation, ranch, wares, wooden cloth), bens (belongings, estate, goods, moneybag, riches). (various references) | |
Romanian | proprietate (affection, demesne, estate, feature, hand, having, holding, ownership, peculiarity, possession, proprietary), pãmânt (acre, all over the world, clay, clod, country, dirt, earth, estate, Glebe, ground, land, Mold, mould, region, sod, soil, territory, throughout the world), stare (class, condition, estate, fortune, humor, humour, keep, plight, posture, rank, remaining, repose, rest, situation, sort, standing, state, station, way, wealth), semn (auspice, badge, Beck, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, office, portent, print, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), recuzitã (props, stage-property), calitate (affection, assets, attribute, character, class, feature, grade, kind, Mark, merit, quality, rank, rate, sort, staple, title, virtue), avere (all, assets, belongings, effect, estate, fortune, gold, goods, having, means, opulence, patrimony, possession, substance, wealth), însuşire (adoption, appropriation, assimilation, attribute, feature, peculiarity, qualification, trait, virtue). (various references) | |
Russian | свойство (apanage, attribute, attribute-value, character, characteristic, habitude, quality, trait), собственность;свойство, собственность (havings, ownership, possessions, proprietorship, worldly goods), ферма (estate, farm, girder, location, ostrich-farm, ranch, ranchland, stead, steading, truss), фе, имущество (asset, estate, goods, havings, holding, intestacy, personal effects, props, worldly goods), имущественный (material), достояние. (various references) | |
Scottish | maoin (goods and gear, wealth), earras (wealth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posed (acre, occupancy, possession), vlasništvo (proprietorship), svojina (belongings, own, ownership), osobina (attribute, characteristic, mannerism, propriety, strain, trait), imovinski, imovina (assets, goods, propriety), imetak (pile, possession, worth), imanje (estate, holding). (various references) | |
Spanish | finca (estate, farm, land, manor, ranch), propiedad (appropriateness, chattel, deprivation, domain, estate, holding, individual, ownership, proprietary, proprietorship, propriety, right), granja (estate, farm, Grange, homestead, ranch), característica (characteristic, feature, peculiarity, special feature, trait), calidad (character, grade, position, quality, rank), bienes (assets, belongings, estate, goods, havings, holding, possessions). (various references) | |
Swedish | egenskap (attribute, capacity, qualification, quality, trait), egendom (belongings, estate, possession, premise, proprietary), gods (country house, country seat, court, estate, freight, goods, manor, material, possessions, ware), ägodel. (various references) | |
Tagalog | uri (kind, quality, sort), urì (kind, quality, sort), klase (class, quality), kabukirán (estate, farm, ranch), búkid (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
Turkish | varlık (asset, being, circumstance, circumstances, creature, criter, entity, estate, existence, havings, means, possession, possessions, presence, stock, subsistence, wealth), servet (abundance, affluence, assets, effects, fortune, gold, havings, means, pile, possessions, riches, shekels, substance, treasure, wealth), sahne elbiseleri (properties), sahne eşyaları (properties), nitelik (attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, composition, eligibility, essence, hallmark, kind, plate-mark, qualification, qualitative, quality, stamp), mal (asset, chose, commodity, goods, hereditament, holding, merchandise, possessions, ware), mülk (asset, condo, demesne, domain, estate, freehold, hereditament, landed property, possession, possessions, premises, tenement), emlâk (demesne, estate, real estate, real estate property, realty), eşya (appointments, article, belongings, bulk, commodity, furniture, gear, goods, stuff, thing, traps, ware), özellik (attribute, attribution, cachet, character, characteristic, feature, hall mark, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, particular, particularity, peculiarity, plate-mark, point, quality, quiddity, singularity, special feature, speciality, specialty, stamp, strain, trait). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mal-mьlk, hдsiяet (behavior, character), goю-golaс (belongings), goю (belongings, things), emlдk (belongings). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | якість (affections, caliber, calibre, grade, quality, tenor, texture, virtue), власність (aught, demesne, own, ownership, pelf, possession, proprietorship), надбання (acquisition, attainment), майно (asset, aught, baggage, capital, estate, goods, holding, stuff, things, worth), земельна ділянка (soil, stead), бутафорія, право власності (ownership, proprietary, propriety). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phục trang (prop), vật sở hữu đặc tính, tài sản (asset, estate, mean, meant, possession), quyền sở hữu (ownership, possession, proprietorship), của cải (effect, fortune, mean, meant, money, shekel, treasure). (various references) | |
Welsh | fferm (estate, farm, ranch), eiddo (assets, belongings, hers, his, mine, ours, possessions, theirs, thine, yours). (various references) | |
Zulu | ipulazi (estate, farm, ranch), ilipulazi (estate, farm, ranch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | nì-gur. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | makkûru. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amorrei, amri, censu, censum, census, consors, consortes, consortia, consortibus, consortium, dominium, fortunae, iturei, pecunia, pecuniae, pecuniam, pecuniamque, pecuniarum, pecunias, pecuniis, possessio, possessione, possessionem, possessiones, possessionibus, possessionis, possessionum, qualitas, re, rei, rem, rena, rerum, res, rhei, substantia, vicus, villa. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | capitale. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | boedel. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | captale. (various references) |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | catel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 34, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai en hmin katoikeite kai h gh idou plateia enantion umwn katoikeite kai emporeuesqe ep' authV kai egkthsasqe en auth |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et habitate nobiscum terra in potestate vestra est exercete negotiamini et possidete eam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The loond is in youre power, excersise ye, chaffare ye, and haue ye it. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And dwell with vs and the lande shall be at youre pleasure dwell and do youre busynes and haue youre possessions there in. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 34, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug kamo magapuyo uban kanamo; ug ang yuta anaa sa inyong atubangan; pumuyo ug magpatigayon kamo dinhi, ug dawaton ninyo ang pagkatag-iya niini. |
| Croatian | Tako možete živjeti meðu nama; zemlja je pred vama da se naselite, u njoj se slobodno kreæete i stjeèete imovinu!" |
| Danish | tag Ophold hos os, og Landet skal stå eder åbent; slå eder ned og drag frit omkring og saml eder Ejendom der!" |
| Dutch | En woont met ons; en het land zal voor uw aangezicht zijn; woont, en handelt daarin, en stelt u tot bezitters daarin. |
| Finnish | ja jääkää asumaan meidän luoksemme. Maa on oleva teille avoinna, asukaa siinä ja kierrelkää siinä ja asettukaa sinne." |
| French | Vous habiterez avec nous, et le pays sera à votre disposition; restez, pour y trafiquer et y acquérir des propriétés. |
| German | und wohnt bei uns. Das Land soll euch offen sein; wohnt und werbet und gewinnet darin. |
| Hungarian | És lakjatok velünk; a föld elõttetek van, lakjátok, s kereskedjetek rajta és bírjátok azt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka Saudara-saudara boleh tinggal bersama kami di negeri ini; di mana Saudara suka. Saudara-saudara boleh bebas berdagang dan memiliki harta benda." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan hendaklah kiranya kamu duduk dengan kami, bahwa tanah ini adalah di hadapanmu, duduklah dan berkelilinglah kamu dan ambillah milik dalamnya. |
| Italian | Abiterete con noi e il paese sarà a vostra disposizione; risiedetevi, percorretelo in lungo e in largo e acquistate proprietà in esso». |
| Maori | A me noho koutou ki a matou: a ka takoto atu te whenua i mua i a koutou: e noho i reira, ka hokohoko i reira, ka whakatupu rawa ma koutou i reira. |
| Norwegian | Bli boende hos oss! Landet skal stå åpent for eder; bo her og dra omkring og få eder eiendommer her! |
| Rumanian | Locuiyi cu noi; yara vq stq knainte, rqmkneyi kn ea, faceyi negoy wi cumpqrayi pqmknturi kn ea.`` |
| Russian | Й ЦЙЧЙФЕ У ОБНЙ; ЪЕНМС УЙС РТЕД ЧБНЙ, ЦЙЧЙФЕ Й РТПНЩЫМСКФЕ ОБ ОЕК Й РТЙПВТЕФБКФЕ ЕЕ ЧП ЧМБДЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | Habitad con nosotros; la tierra está delante de vosotros. Habitad en ella, negociad y estableceos en ella. |
| Swedish | och bosätten eder hos oss, ty landet skall ligga öppet för eder; där mån I bo och draga omkring och förvärva besittningar." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "property": propertyless, propertylessness, propertylessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Property" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Poopathy, pooperty, Probart, proberty, prompert, propaty, properity, propert, propertly, propertry, propitie, proports, propret, prosperty, prpety, prpperty, roperty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "property" (pronounced prÄ"pertē) |
| 3 | -er t ē | antipoverty, entirety, liberty, poverty, puberty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-p-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: poetry, popery, porter, pretor, proper, pyrope, report, ropery, topper. | |
-3 letters: perry, pryer, repot, repro, retro, retry, roper, ropey, tepoy, terry, toper, toyer, trope. | |
-4 letters: oyer, pepo, perp, pert, poet, pope, pore, port, prep, prey, prop, pyre, repo, repp, rope, ropy, rote, ryot, tope, tore, torr, tory, trey, trop, troy, tyer, type, typo, typp. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-p-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: propriety. | |
+2 letters: peremptory, preceptory, preemptory, prosperity. | |
+3 letters: hypertrophy, impropriety, petrography, preparatory, proprietary, purportedly, typographer. | |
+4 letters: appreciatory, coprosperity, hypertrophic, peremptorily, perspiratory, propertyless, pyromorphite, typographers. | |
+5 letters: appropriately, cryptographer, hypermetropia, hypermetropic, hypertrophied, hypertrophies, parthenocarpy, precopulatory, preparatorily, pyromorphites, spectrography. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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