Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS V DIVISION II SECTION IV. POSSESSIVE RELATIONS


775. Acquisition -- N. acquisition; gaining &c v.; obtainment; procuration † , procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift &c 784.

776. Loss -- N. loss; deperdition † , perdition; forfeiture, lapse.

777. Possession -- N. possession, seizin [Law] , seisin [Law] ; ownership &c 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality † , dependency; villenage, villeinage † ; socage † , chivalry, knight service.

777a. Exemption -- N. exemption; absence &c 187; exception, immunity, privilege, release.

778. [Joint possession.] Participation -- N. participation; cotenancy † , joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation &c 709.

779. Possessor -- N. possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession &c 777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee † ; zemindar † , ryot † ; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.

780. Property -- N. property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.] , meum et tuum [Lat.] .

781. Retention -- N. retention; retaining &c v.; keep, detention, custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip.

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

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.

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

785. Receiving -- N. receiving &c v.; acquisition &c 775; reception &c (introduction) 296; suscipiency † , acceptance, admission.

786. Apportionment -- N. apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution; division, deal; repartition, partition; administration.

787. Lending -- N. lending &c v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration † ; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan &c (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper.

788. Borrowing -- N. borrowing, pledging.

789. Taking -- N. taking &c v.; reception &c (taking in) 296; deglutition &c (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation † ; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension † ; abreption † , seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal &c 38; abstraction, ademption † ; adrolepsy † .

790. Restitution -- N. restitution, return; rendition, reddition † ; restoration; reinvestment, recuperation; rehabilitation &c (reconstruction) 660; reparation, atonement; compensation, indemnification.

791. Stealing -- N. stealing &c v.; theft, thievery, latrociny † , direption † ; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism † ; latrocinium † .

792. Thief -- N. thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.] , pilferer, rifler, filcher † , plagiarist.

793. Booty -- N. booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang] , pickings; spolia opima [Lat.] , prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

794. Barter -- N. barter, exchange, scorse † , truck system; interchange &c 148.

795. Purchase -- N. purchase, emption † ; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal.

796. Sale -- N. sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue † ; custom &c (traffic) 794.

797. Merchant -- N. merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater † ; shopkeeper, shopman † ; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.

798. Merchandise -- N. merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade &c (store) 636; cargo &c (contents) 190.

799. Mart -- N. mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's.

799a. Stock Market [specialized markets for financial instruments] -- N. stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues.

799b. Securities -- N. securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond, convertable bond † .

800. Money -- N. money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts &c 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets &c (property) 780; wealth &c 803; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.

801. Treasurer -- N. treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor † , receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist † ; money changer &c (merchant) 797.

802. Treasury -- N. treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper † ; cash register, kutcherry † , bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest &c (receptacle) 191; safe; bank vault; depository &c 636; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie [Fr.] .

803. Wealth -- N. wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence &c (sufficiency) 639; solvency.

804. Poverty -- N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

805. Credit -- N. credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.

806. Debt -- N. debt, obligation, liability, indebtment † , debit, score.

807. Payment -- N. payment, defrayment † ; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement.

808. Nonpayment -- N. nonpayment; default, defalcation; protest, repudiation; application of the sponge † ; whitewashing.

809. Expenditure -- N. expenditure, money going out; out goings, out lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost &c (price) 812; circulation; run upon a bank.

810. Receipt -- N. receipt, value received, money coming in; income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net profit; earnings &c (gain) 775; accepta † , avails.

811. Accounts -- N. accounts, accompts † ; commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic; statistics &c (numeration) 85; money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account.

812. Price -- N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c (remuneration) 973; value &c 812.1.

812a. Value [intrinsic worth] -- N. {ant.

812b. Worthlessness -- N. {ant.

813. Discount -- N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio † , percentage; rebate, rebatement † ; backwardation, contango † ; salvage; tare and tret † .

814. Dearness -- N. dearness &c adj.; high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.

815. Cheapness -- N. cheapness, low price; depreciation; bargain; good penny worth &c ; snap [U.S.] .

816. Liberality -- N. liberality, generosity, munificence; bounty, bounteousness, bountifulness; hospitality; charity &c (beneficence) 906.

817. Economy -- N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness † , retrenchment.

817a. Greed [excessive desire] -- N. covetousness, ravenousness &c adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire &c 865.

818. Prodigality -- N. prodigality, prodigence † ; unthriftiness † , waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c v.; malversation.

819. Parsimony -- N. parsimony, parcity † ; parsimoniousness † , stinginess &c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.