(properties)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Someone’s ~ is all the things that belong to them or something that belongs to them. (FORMAL)
Richard could easily destroy her personal ~ to punish her for walking out on him...
Security forces searched thousands of homes, confiscating weapons and stolen ~.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss
2.
A ~ is a building and the land belonging to it. (FORMAL)
This vehicle has been parked on private ~.
N-VAR
3.
The properties of a substance or object are the ways in which it behaves in particular conditions.
A radio signal has both electrical and magnetic properties.
N-COUNT: usu pl