Property Definition–noun, plural -ties. | 1. | that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire. | | 2. | goods, land, etc., considered as possessions: The corporation is a means for the common ownership of property. | | 3. | a piece of land or real estate: property on Main Street. | | 4. | ownership; right of possession, enjoyment, or disposal of anything, esp. of something tangible: to have property in land. | | 5. | something at the disposal of a person, a group of persons, or the community or public: The secret of the invention became common property. | | 6. | an essential or distinctive attribute or quality of a thing: the chemical and physical properties of an element. | | 7. | Logic. | a. | any attribute or characteristic. | | b. | (in Aristotelian logic) an attribute not essential to a species but always connected with it and with it alone. | | | 8. | Also called prop. a usually movable item, other than costumes or scenery, used on the set of a theater production, motion picture, etc.; any object handled or used by an actor in a performance. | | 9. | a written work, play, movie, etc., bought or optioned for commercial production or distribution. | | 10. | a person, esp. one under contract in entertainment or sports, regarded as having commercial value: an actor who was a hot property at the time. | |
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