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the relation of an owner to the thing possessed - community
common ownership - severalty
exclusive individual ownership - property right
the legal right of ownership - preemptive right
the right granting to shareholders the first opportunity to buy a new issue of stock - subscription right
the right of a shareholder in a company to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public - option
the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price - stock option
a benefit given by a company to an employee in the form of an option to buy stock in the company at a discount or at a fixed price - stock option
the right to buy or sell a stock at a specified price within a stated period - call option
an option to buy - put option
an option to sell - lock-up option
an option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeover - tenure, land tenure
the right to hold property - copyhold
a medieval form of land tenure in England - freehold
tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life - freehold
an estate held in fee simple or for life - villeinage
tenure by which a villein held land - stock buyback
a corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock - public domain
property rights that are held by the public at large - proprietorship, proprietary
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits - employee ownership
ownership of a business by the people who work for it - holding, property, belongings
something owned - tangible possession, material possession
property or belongings that are tangible - worldly possessions, worldly belongings, worldly goods
all the property that someone possess - ratables, rateables
property that provides tax income for local governments - 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 or trademarks or copyrights) - community property
property and income belonging jointly to a married couple - personal property, personal estate, personalty, private property
movable property (as distinguished from real estate) - chattel, personal chattel, movable
personal as opposed to real property - effects, personal effects
property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business - things
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) - real property, real estate, realty, immovable
property consisting of houses and land - land, estate, demesne, landed estate, acres
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use - commonage
property held in common - glebe
plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office - landholding
a holding in the form of land - landholding
ownership of land - salvage
property or goods saved from damage or destruction - shareholding
a holding in the form of shares of corporations - spirituality, spiritualty, church property
property or income owned by a church - temporalty, temporality
the worldly possessions of a church - benefice, ecclesiastical benefice
an endowed church office giving income to its holder - sinecure
a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached - rental, lease, letting
property that is leased or rented out or let - car rental, hire car, rent-a-car, self-drive, u-drive, you-drive
a rented car - trade-in
an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one - sublease, sublet
a lease from one lessee to another - public property
property owned by a government - leasehold
land or property held under a lease - smallholding
a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation - homestead
land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law - farmstead
the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm - homestead
the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family - no man's land
land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable) - fief, feoff
a piece of land held under the feudal system - land
the land on which real estate is located - dead hand, mortmain
real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) - wealth
property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value - money
wealth reckoned in terms of money - pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) - estate
everything you own - stuff, clobber
informal terms for personal possessions - gross estate
the total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's death - net estate
the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate - life estate, estate for life
(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it - barony
the estate of a baron - countryseat
an estate in the country - Crown land
land that belongs to the Crown - manor
the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) - seigniory, seigneury, signory
the estate of a seigneur - hacienda
a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries - plantation
an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) - orangery
a place where oranges are grown - white elephant
a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive - transferred property, transferred possession
a possession whose ownership changes or lapses - acquisition
something acquired - accession, addition
something added to what you already have - purchase
something acquired by purchase - steal, bargain, buy
an advantageous purchase - song
a very small sum - travel bargain
a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes) - grant, assignment
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance - appanage, apanage
a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family - land grant
a grant of public land (as to a railway or college) - gain
the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating - financial gain
the amount of monetary gain - income
the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time - disposable income
income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending - double dipping
two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension) - easy money, gravy train
income obtained with a minimum of effort - EBITDA, Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization
income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted - easy money
the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure - tight money
the economic condition in which credit is difficult to secure and interest rates are high - escheat
the property that reverts to the state - gross, revenue, receipts
the entire amount of income before any deductions are made - national income
the total value of all income in a nation (wages and profits and interest and rents and pension payments) during a given period (usually 1 yr) - gross national product, GNP
former measure of the United States economy - real gross national product, real GNP
a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation - gross domestic product, GDP
the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991 - deflator
a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation - royalty
payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property - box office
total admission receipts for an entertainment - gate
total admission receipts at a sports event - net, profit, net income, net profit, lucre, profits, earnings
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) - paper profit
an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price - paper loss
an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost - cash flow
the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including non-cash expenses) - personal income
the income received by a single individual - earning per share
the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock - windfall profit
profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it - killing, cleanup
a very large profit - win, profits, winnings
something won (especially money) - rental income
income received from rental properties - return, take, yield, issue, payoff, takings, proceeds
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property - fast buck, quick buck
quick or easy earnings, "they are traders out to make a fast buck" - filthy lucre
shameful profit - margin, gross profit, gross profit margin
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold - gross sales, gross revenue, sales
income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time - net sales
gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances - margin of profit, profit margin, gross margin
the ratio gross profits divided by net sales - unearned income, unearned revenue
(accounting) income received but not yet earned (usually considered a current liability on a company's balance sheet) - unearned income, unearned revenue
personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income) - government income, government revenue
income available to the government - taxation, revenue, tax income, tax revenue
government income due to taxation - internal revenue
government revenue from domestic sources (excluding customs) - per capita income
the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation - stolen property
property that has been stolen - spoil
(usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) - pillage, swag, prize, loot, booty, plunder, dirty money
goods or money obtained illegally - inheritance, heritage
that which is inherited - primogeniture
right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son - borough English
a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers - accretion
(law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) - bequest, legacy
(law) a gift of personal property by will - birthright, patrimony
an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) - devise
(law) a gift of real property by will - dower
a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband - jointure, legal jointure
(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower - free lunch
something acquired without effort or payment or obligation - heirloom
something that has been in a family for generations - heirloom
(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance - gift
something acquired without compensation - portion, dower, dowry, dowery
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage - bride price
money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride - largess, largesse
a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence) - aid, economic aid, financial aid
money to support a worthy person or cause - scholarship
financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit - fellowship
money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research - foreign aid
aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another - grant
any monetary aid - subsidy
a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public - subvention
grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution - price support
a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level - grant-in-aid
a grant to a person or school for some educational project - postdoc, post doc, postdoctoral
a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research - traineeship
financial aid that enables you to get trained for a specified job - gratuity
an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation - award, prize
something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery - door prize
tickets are passed out at the entrance to a dance or party or other social function and a prize is awarded to the holder of the winning ticket - jackpot
any outstanding award - prize money
any money given as a prize - present
something presented as a gift - birthday present, birthday gift
a present given in celebration of a person's birthday - Christmas present, Christmas gift
a present given at Christmas time - stocking filler, stocking stuffer
a small Christmas present included in the Christmas stocking - wedding present, wedding gift
a present given to someone getting married - bride-gift
a wedding present to the bride - cash surrender value
the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured - contribution
an amount of money contributed - contribution, donation
a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause - benefaction
a contribution of money or assistance - offering
money contributed to a religious organization - tithe
an offering of a tenth part of some personal income - offertory
the offerings of the congregation at a religious service - hearth money, Peter's pence
an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see - political contribution, political donation
a contribution made to a politician or a political campaign or a political party - soft money
political contributions made in such a way as to avoid the United States regulations for federal election campaigns (as by contributions to a political action committee) - endowment, endowment fund
the capital that provides income for an institution - enrichment
a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth - patrimony
a church endowment - chantry
an endowment for the singing of Masses - lagniappe
a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) - bestowal, bestowment
a gift that is bestowed or conferred - bounty, premium
payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military - premium
a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc. - freebie, freebee
something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) - giveaway
a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group - gift horse
a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically - thank offering
an offering made as an expression of thanks - bonus, incentive
an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output - incentive program, incentive scheme
a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something - deductible
(taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) - defalcation
the sum of money that is misappropriated - dividend
a bonus - sales incentive
remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal - adjustment, allowance
an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances - cost-of-living allowance
an allowance for changes in the consumer price index - depreciation allowance
an allowance for loss due to depreciation - deduction, discount
an amount or percentage deducted