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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
property/ˈprɒpəti/
noun (pl. properties)
  • 1 a thing or things belonging to someone.
  • 2 a building and the land belonging to it.

    ■ (properties) shares or investments in property.

  • 3 Law ownership.
  • 4 a characteristic of something.
  • 5 old-fashioned term for prop2.
– origin ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. propriete, from L. proprietas, from proprius (see proper).



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