1. A useful or valuable quality; SYN. plus.
2. Anything of material value or usefulness.

ETYM Commonly in the pl.
Happiness felt in a secure relationship.

ETYM Latin custodia, from custos guard. Related to Hide to cover.
Holding by the police.
The state of being held in confinement by the police or prison authorities. Following an arrest, a person may either be kept in custody or released on bail.

1. Benefit.
2. Moral excellence or admirableness; SYN. goodness.
3. That which is good or valuable or useful; SYN. goodness.
In economics, a term often used to denote any product, including services. Equally, a good is often distinguished from a service, as in “goods and services”. The opposite of a normal good, a product for which demand increases as a person’s income increases, is an inferior good, a product for which demand decreases as income increases. A free good is one which an individual or organization can consume in infinite quantities at no cost, like the air we breathe. However, most goods are economic goods, which are scarce in supply and therefore have an opportunity cost. In a free market, economic goods are allocated through prices. + prikaži više

1. Possession with the right to transfer possession to others.
2. The state or fact of being an owner.

ETYM French possession, Latin possessio.
1. Anything owned or possessed.
2. Being controlled by passion or the supernatural.
3. The act of possessing; SYN. ownership.

ETYM Old Eng. proprete, Old Fren. propreté property, French propreté neatness, cleanliness, propriété property, from Latin proprietas. Related to Proper, Propriety.
1. A basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.
2. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; SYN. attribute, dimension.
3. Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; SYN. prop.
4. Any tangible possession that is owned by someone; SYN. belongings, holding, material possession.
The right to title and to control the use of a thing (such as land, a building, a work of art, or a computer program). In US law, a distinction is made between real property, which involves a degree of geographical fixity, and personal property, which does not.
Property is never absolute, since any society places limits on an individual's property (such as the right to transfer that property to another). Different societies have held widely varying interpretations of the nature of property and the extent of the rights of the owner to that property. + prikaži više