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Meanings of chattel in English

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Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

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Usage of chattel in English
1
I'm no different from any of his other chattel? Her voice rose.
Nefertiti
2
Old caste systems and chattel slavery have gone down before this ideal.
Christianity and Progress
3
Julia and I were chattel to bind chosen men to his side.
Lily of the Nile
4
But he had learnt that Adela was by no means his chattel.
Demos
5
In your society, women are chattel, to be owned, bought, and sold.
The Highest Treason
6
I am yours, your chattel, your thing, till the end of time.
Simon the Jester
7
When my fellow-chattel appeared next morning with my coffee, he was embarrassed.
The Boss of Little Arcady
8
Am I not your slave, your chattel, your plaything, what you will?
The Malady of the Century
9
How could she care for a chattel, a creature without even identity!
The Puritans
10
This corrupt democracy was built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.
Ebony
11
He had no rights; he was an animal; he was property, a chattel.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
12
She had been with Harold first, therefore she was Harold's chattel.
The stand
13
I never said that it was the equivalent of slavery, of chattel slavery.
Ebony
14
The type of control of her as his chattel, his property.
Radio NZ
15
The ignorance of the chattel is the life that feeds the master's power.
The Harvest of Years
16
Profound economic forces brought about the beginning of the end of chattel slavery.
A Preface to Politics
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Translations for chattel
Chattel through the time
Chattel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common