PROPERTY

Property

In abstract, property is that which is had by or belongs to/with something, whether as an attribute or a component. For the significant context of this article, property is one or more components, whether physical or incorporeal, of a person's estate; or so belonging to, as in being owned by, a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation or even a society. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, alter, share, redefine, rent, mortgage, pawn, sell, exchange, transfer, give away or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, as well as perhaps to abandon it; whereas regardless ...

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property

Noun

  1. Something that is owned.
  2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  3. Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  5. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
  6. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  7. An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
  8. An object used in a dramatic production.
  9. propriety; correctness

Verb

  1. To invest with properties, or qualities.
  2. To make a property of; to appropriate.


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