chattel

Noun

1. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
   • Synonyms
     • personal chattel
     • movable
   • Less specific
     • personal property
     • personal estate
     • personalty
     • private property
   • Topic Members
     • furniture
     • piece of furniture
     • article of furniture
     • car
     • auto
     • automobile
     • machine
     • motorcar

Context for New Word

While reading Moore (2005) I came across chattel as a new word.

I hadn’t ever heard this term. It is still so crazy to think of people being possessions.

The following are the words that are in the New Word Project:

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The definition for this word taken from the Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. If you are interested in how I created this resource and how I add new words to it, you can see my blog post Title of Blog Post.