English > holding: 2 senses > noun 2, possession| Meaning | Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone. |
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| Synonyms | property, belongings |
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| Narrower | commonage | Property held in common |
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| community property | property and income belonging jointly to a married couple |
| estate | Everything you own |
| heirloom | (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance |
| hereditament | Any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited |
| intellectual property | intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents / patents or trademarks or copyrights) |
| landholding | A holding in the form of land |
| lease, rental, letting | Property that is leased or rented out or let |
| personal property, personal estate, personalty, private property | movable property (as distinguished from real estate) |
| public property | Property owned by a government |
| ratables, rateables | Property that provides tax income for local governments |
| real property, real estate, realty, immovable | Property consisting of houses and land |
| salvage | Property or goods saved from damage or destruction |
| shareholding | A holding in the form of shares of corporations |
| spiritualty, spirituality, church property | Property or income owned by a church |
| stockholding, stockholdings | A specific number of stocks or shares owned |
| tangible possession, material possession | Property or belongings that are tangible |
| things | Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) |
| trade-in | An item of property that is given in part payment for a new one |
| trust | Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary) |
| wealth | Property that has economic utility |
| worldly possessions, worldly belongings, worldly goods | All the property that someone possess |
| Broader | possession | Anything owned or possessed |
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| Spanish | bien, pertenencia, posesiones, posesión, propiedad |
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| Catalan | coses, pertinença, pertinences, possessió, possessions, propietat |
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| Verbs | hold | have or possess / possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense |
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