private property
Personally owned assets
Private property is anything owned by an individual or entity rather than held in common or by the state.
The concept encompasses land, buildings, possessions, and intellectual creations.
Property rights include the ability to use, exclude others from, and transfer ownership: The sign said private property, keep out.
In political and economic discourse, private property often appears in debates about capitalism, taxation, and government authority: They believe private property is the foundation of liberty.
Written property conveyance
- titleFormal honorific or name
- parcelWrapped item for shipping
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- acreageAmount of land owned
tract · estate · freehold · leasehold · homestead · zoning · surveyor · cadastral
Things one owns
- valuablesPossessions of significant worth
- personal effectsIndividual's portable possessions
- assetsOwned items of value
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
jewelry · furniture · electronics · collectibles · keepsakes · vehicles · artwork · instruments
deed
Written property conveyance
acreage · tract · estate · freehold · leasehold · homestead · zoning · surveyor · cadastral · tenure
possessions
Things one owns
- valuablesPossessions of significant worth
- personal effectsIndividual's portable possessions
- assetsOwned items of value
heirlooms · jewelry · furniture · electronics · collectibles · keepsakes · vehicles · artwork · instruments · tools
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
- free marketsfree market, free enterprise, free trade, free markets, laissez-faire
- Liberalismindividual liberty, individual rights, civil liberties, classical liberalism, free market
- forbidden placesno-go zone, no-go area, restricted area, restricted zone, black site
- distributismsubsidiarity, small enterprise, family business, smallholding, smallholders
- enclosureenclosure acts, common land, commons, open fields, fences
private propertypublic property
Assets owned by government
communal property · common property · state property · communal land · public land
private propertypublic space
Area open to everyone
common land · open access · public domain · shared space · public land
private propertycollective ownership
Joint holding by many
public ownership · common ownership · communism · socialism · nationalization
private, property, appropriate, privately, proprietor, appropriately, privation, proprietary, appropriated