English words and phrases

snacks, coportion^†, picnic, hotchpot^†; co-heirship, co-parceny^†, co-parcenary; gavelkind^†.

participator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant, joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener^†.

communist, socialist.

have in common, possess in common, be seized in common, have as joint tenants, possess as joint tenants, be seized as joint tenants &c n.. join in; have a hand in &c (cooperate) 709.

owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator^†, master, mistress, lord.

land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour^†, landed gentry, mesne lord^†; planter.

cestui-que-trust [Fr.], beneficiary, mortgagor.

grantee, feoffee^†, releasee [Law], relessee^†, devisee; legatee, legatary^†.

trustee; holder of the legal estate &c; mortgagee.

right owner, rightful owner.

[Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner^†, remainderman^†.
780. Property -- N. property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.].

ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority^†; empire &c (dominion) 737.

interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure &c (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin [Law], seisin [Law].

absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.

limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.

dower, dowry, jointure^†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy &c (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.

assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth &c 803; money &c 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.

landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground &c (earth) 342; acquest^†, messuage, toft^†.

territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.

manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium &c (free) 748 [Obs.]; fief, fieff^†, feoff^†, feud, zemindary^†, dependency; arado^†, merestead^†, ranch.

free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland^†; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.

personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c 633.

parcels, appurtenances.

impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.

rent roll; income &c (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].

patent, copyright; chose in action; credit &c 805; debt &c 806.

savor of the realty.

be one's property &c n.; belong to; appertain to, pertain to.

Adj. one's own; landed, predial^†, manorial, allodial^†; free lease-hold, copy lease-hold; feudal, feodal^†.

Adv. to one's credit, to one's account; to the good.

to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assigns.

fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond &c (vinculum) 45.

clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.

paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf^†, neif^†.

bird in hand; captive &c 754.

V. retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.

secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband &c (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock &c (possess) 777; entail, tie up, settle.

unforfeited^†, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated.

incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain [Fr.]; in strict settlement.

Phr. uti possidetis [Lat.].
782. Relinquishment -- N. relinquishment, abandonment &c (of a course) 624; renunciation, expropriation^†, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation &c 757; riddance.

derelict &c adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.

discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish.

V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate^†, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c (disuse) 678; set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of, be quit of, get quit of; eject &c 297.

rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess oneself of; wash one's hands of.

discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

quit one's hold, quitclaim.

Adj. relinquished &c v.; cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated, unculled; left &c (residuary) 40.

Int. away with!,
2. Transfer of Property
783. Transfer -- N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation^†; demise, limitation; conveyancing^†; transmission &c (transference) 270; enfeoffment^†, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange &c (interchange) 148; barter &c 794; substitution &c 147.

succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.

change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come into possession &c (acquire) 775.

abalienate^†; disinherit; dispossess &c 789; substitute &c 147.

Adj. alienable, negotiable.

Phr. estate coming into possession.
784. Giving -- N. giving &c v.; bestowal, bestowment^†, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award.

almsgiving^†, charity, liberality, generosity.

grace, act of grace, bonus.

allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.

bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation^†, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance &c 783; amortization.

alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule^†, donative^†, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula^†, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail^†, douceur [Fr.], drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld [G.], bakshish^†; fee &c (recompense) 973; consideration.

bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle [Slang], graft, grease [Slang]; blat [Rus.].

giver, grantor &c v.; donor, feoffer^†, settlor.

V. deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.

present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.

pay &c 807; render, impart, communicate.

concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend &c 809.

give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.

intrust, consign, vest in.

make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.

invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise.

furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.

tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer &c 763; sacrifice, immolate.

recipient, accipient^†; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary^†; grantee, feoffee^†, donee [Fr.], releasee [Law], relessee^†, lessee; receiver.

sportulary^†, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary^†; almsman^†.

income &c (receipt) 810.

take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take off one's hands.

be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into one's hand; go into one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share; come to one, fall to one; accrue; have given to one &c 784.

Adj. receiving &c v.; recipient, suscipient^†.

received &c v.; given &c 784; secondhand.

not given, unbestowed &c (give), (bestow) &c 784.
786. Apportionment -- N. apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution; division, deal; repartition, partition; administration.

dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte^†.

allocate, ration, ration out; assign; separate &c 44.

partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.

come in for one's share &c (participate) 778.

mont de piete [Fr.], pawnshop, my uncle's.

lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark.

loaner (of item loaned).

intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.

let, demise, lease, sett^†, underlet.

Adj. lending &c v.; lent &c v.; unborrowed &c (borrowed) &c 788 [Obs.].

Adv. in advance; on loan, on security.
788. Borrowing -- N. borrowing, pledging.

borrowed plumes; plagiarism &c (thieving) 791.

replevin [Law].

V. borrow, desume^†.

hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year &c; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year &c; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul; run into debt &c (debt) 806.

replevy [Law].

dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^†; bereavement; divestment; disherison^†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction &c 297.

rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c 791.

resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c 775.

clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.

taker, captor.

reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c (get) 775; draw.

appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^†; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.

take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem^†; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave^†.

snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.

get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.

catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.

take from, take away from; disseize^†; deduct &c 38; retrench &c (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

oust &c (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach^†; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^†, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

retake, resume; recover &c 775.

bereft &c 776.

release, replevin [Law], redemption; recovery &c (getting back) 775; remitter, reversion.

reinvest, revest, reinstate.

redeem, recover &c (get back) 775; take back again.

revest, revert.

spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^†; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.

piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.

filibustering, filibusterism^†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].

robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.

peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.

thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.

blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].

convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize &c (lay violent hands on) 789.

plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^†, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^†, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud &c 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.

rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief.

disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].

stolen &c v..

spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang], land shark, falcon, mosstrooper^†, bushranger^†, Bedouin^†, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit^†; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones^†, buccaneer, buccanier^†; piqueerer^†, pickeerer^†; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee^†, wrecker, picaroon^†; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger [Slang], bunko man, cattle thief, chor^†, contrabandist^†, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up [U.S.], jackleg [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin [Slang], sneak thief, spieler^†, strong-arm man [U.S.].

highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.

cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook [Slang], Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher [Slang]; defaulter; Autolycus^†, Jeremy Diddler^†, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob [Slang], chevalier d'industrie [Fr.]; shoplifter.

swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.

burglar, housebreaker; cracksman^†, magsman [Slang]; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.

gang [group of thieves], gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra [It].

[famous thieves], Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood.
793. Booty -- N. booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang], pickings; spolia opima [Lat.], prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

Adj. manubial^†.
3. Interchange of Property
794. Barter -- N. barter, exchange, scorse^†, truck system; interchange &c 148.

a Roland for an Oliver; quid pro quo; commutation, composition; Indian gift [U.S.].

trade, commerce, mercature^†, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination^†, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing^†, agiotage^†, brokery^†.

deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain.

free trade.

V. barter, exchange, swap, swop^†, truck, scorse^†; interchange &c 148; commutate &c (substitute) 147; compound for.

trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate^†; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.

trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.

bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle^†; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain &c (contract) 769.

speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market.