private property

British

noun

land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use

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private property

The pack of dogs had been roaming onto an oil field in Oxnard, traipsing onto private property and walking perilously close to vehicular traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

An e-motorcycle can be driven without a license if operated on private property or in off-road-vehicle areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Canada has one of the strongest private property rights regimes in the developed world,” Mr. Globerman says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Without the meter, leaks are far harder to detect within pipes on private property.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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