private property

English

Noun

private property (countable and uncountable, plural private properties)

1. (law, property law) Property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess.
   • 1969, Paul Kantner (lyrics and music), “We Can Be Together”, performed by Jefferson Airplane:

     All your private property is / Target for your enemy / And your enemy is we

2. (law, property law) Property to which the state or other public organizations do not have exclusive property rights.

Antonyms

• public property

Translations

belongings owned by individuals

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私有物 (sīyǒuwù), 私有財產／私有财产 (zh) (sīyǒu cáichǎn)

• Finnish: yksityisomaisuus (fi)
• French: propriété privée (fr) f
• German: Privateigentum (de) n, Privatbesitz (de) m
• Hungarian: magántulajdon (hu)
• Irish: maoin phearsanta f
• Kazakh: жеке меншік (jeke menşık)
• Polish: własność prywatna f
• Portuguese: propriedade privada f
• Russian: частная собственность (ru) (častnaja sobstvennostʹ)
• Southern Altai: энчилӱ јӧӧжӧ (enčilü ǰööžö)
• Spanish: propiedad privada f
• Turkish: özel mülkiyet (tr)

property to which the state does not have rights

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: yksityisomaisuus (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• private property on Wikipedia.Wikipedia